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UNITED STATES
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WASHINGTON : 1950

Unitep States Nationau Museum,
Unver Direction OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
Washington, D. C., October 15, 1949.
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present
condition of the United States National Museum and upon the work
accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1949.

Very respectfully,
REMINGTON KELLOGG,

Director, U. S. National Museum.
Dr. A. WETMORE,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.

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REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF
THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1949

By REMINGTON KELLOGG

Director of the United States National Museum

INTRODUCTION

Durine the fiscal year 1948-49 the United States National Museum
was allotted $748,760 from the funds appropriated by Congress to
carry on the operations of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches.
This allotment included $36,200 for printing and binding, the remain-
der being used for salaries and expenses required for the preservation,
exhibition, increase, and study of the national collections of anthro-
pological, zoological, botanical, and geological specimens as well as
materials illustrative of engineering, industry, and history.

On July 31, 1948, Dr. Ray S. Bassler, a member of the Museum staff
since August 1, 1913, retired as head curator of the department of
geology, and his successor, Dr. William F. Foshag, was appointed on
August 1, 1948. The division of history was raised to the status of a
department on August 16,1948. Charles Carey, who received his first
appointment to the Museum staff on November 2, 1920, was named
acting head curator of the department of history. The functions of
this department were allocated to five divisions. Mendel L. Peterson
was designated acting curator of military and naval history, Miss
Margaret W. Brown was appointed acting curator of civil history, and
Mrs. Catherine L. Manning was placed in charge of the philatelic col-
lection. With the appointment of Stuart L. Mosher on August 27,
1948, as acting curator of numismatics, the initial reorganization of the
department of history was completed.

The curatorial and research work of the Museum continues to be
retarded by lack of adequate laboratory and office space for the profes-
sional workers and of storage space for proper handling of the collec-
tions, by insufficient supplies and equipment for the normal operation
of the Museum’s activities, and by the shortage of personnel in several
divisions.

The acute space problem, especially the overcrowding of material,
both in the exhibition and the study collections, has been emphasized in

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previous reports. Wings at each end of the Natural History Building
have already been authorized by Congress, and it is hoped that funds
for their construction may be appropriated whenever the public-build-
ing programs are initiated.

The Arts and Industries Building, constructed in 1883 on the south
side of the Mall, has been overcrowded for some years and is no longer
adequate either for the display or for the normal expansion of the
industrial collections. Space requirements for exhibition, storage, and
staff in a new Engineering and Industries Building to replace the
antiquated Arts and Industries Building have been reviewed annually.
Estimates for a separate building for American history have been
made for authorization by Congress. These historical collections,
which are viewed annually by a million or more visitors, are now dis-
played in the crowded halls of the Arts and Industries Building.

Collections.—Field work by the staff in South, Central, and North
America, New Zealand, and Australia, gifts from individuals and in-
dustrial concerns, transfers from Government departments and agen-
cies, and exchanges with institutions in foreign countries have added
large numbers of desirable materials to the national collections. This
steady flow of valuable specimens into the Museum has greatly in-
creased the usefulness of the national collections and, although the
preparation, identification, and storage of these materials are becoming
increasingly more difficult to accomplish with the present limited staff
and facilities, no conceivable justification can be envisaged for rejection
of offered accessions of such high importance.

The accessions for the year arrived in 1,807 separate lots, totaling
445,641 specimens (somewhat less than during the fiscal year 1948),
and were distributed among the six departments as follows: Anthro-
pology, 4,099; zoology, 279,621; botany, 38,708; geology, 109,499;
engineering and industries, 2,610; and history, 11,104. A complete
list (by donor) of all accessions received during the year is given
on pages 80 to 121.

The outstanding event of the year was the presentation by Milton
Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, on behalf of the estate of the late Orville
Wright, of the historic aeroplane invented and constructed by Wilbur
and Orville Wright and flown by them at Kitty Hawk, N. C., on De-
cember 17,1903. Since 1928 the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane had been
in the custody of the Science Museum at London, England. After the
death of Orville Wright on January 30, 1948, legal concurrence for
the shipment of the “Kitty Hawk” plane to Washington was given by
the heirs. Dr. Herman Shaw, director of the Science Museum, ac-
companied the plane across the Atlantic on the Mauretania to Hali-
fax, Nova Scotia, where it was transferred to the Navy carrier Palau
for delivery at New York. A special Navy truck brought the plane
from New York to Washington. The formal presentation ceremony

INTRODUCTION 3

was held in the north entrance hall of the Arts and Industries Build-
ing of the United States National Museum on December 17, 1948, the
45th anniversary of the unprecedented flight at Kitty Hawk. In-
cluded among the 1,000 or more distinguished guests at this ceremony
were members and friends of the Wright families, officials of the
executive departments of the Government, Justices of the Supreme
Court, officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard, and
others interested in aeronautics. The Chancellor of the Smithsonian
Institution, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, accepted the plane on
behalf of the Nation, and the formal acceptance address was delivered
by Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley, a regent of the Smithsonian
Institution. The British Ambassador, Sir Oliver Franks, chose as
the topic of his address “Britain and the Wright Brothers.”

For examination and report 1,516 lots of specimens were received,
involving the identification of more than 50,000 individual items, the
Jarger part of which was referred to the departments of zoology,
botany, and geology. Some of this material was returned to the
senders, and some that is especially desirable was retained with the
approval of the sender for the Museum’s collections.

Gifts of duplicates to schools, museums, and other institutions num-
bered 36,856 specimens. Exchange of duplicate material with other
collections totaled 48,656 specimens, and 634 specimens were trans-
ferred to other Government agencies. Loans for scientific study to
investigators outside of Washington totaled 70,713 specimens. Sev-
enteen collecting outfits were distributed.

The following summary of the collections has been adjusted to
reflect additions to and eliminations from the various series to the end
of the fiscal year. A reasonably careful tabulation of the national
collection of insects at the beginning of the fiscal year 1948-49 indi-
cated a total of 10,500,000 specimens, which increased the 1947-48
estimate of 6,082,818 by 4,417,182 specimens:

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SIMeCring “ANG, JNQUSETICS en 165, 090
PETES Aa May pegs ae eras ae ee eee ee 628, 365

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Library—The Museum library recorded 138,303 publications as
permanent additions to its collections during the past year, more than
half of which were received in exchange. Purchases included 1,382
books, two special collections of pamphlets on plants and on fishes,
and subscriptions for 182 periodicals.

Scientific serials are the backbone of the published source material
indispensable to the work of the curatorial staff, and exchange ar-

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rangements were made to receive 171 new or not previously received
series of these important publications.

Reading and reference use of the library, the true test of its useful-
ness, continued to be heavy, and interlibrary loans were more numer-
ous than last year. Loans of 2,619 volumes were made to 89 libraries,
while the library borrowed 1,457 volumes for its own readers, chiefly
from the Library of Congress and from departmental libraries in
Washington.

Funds permitted 700 volumes, mostly periodicals, to be sent to the
bindery, but inasmuch as these were only a part of the number com-
pleted during the year the backlog of binding continued to grow.
More than a thousand books were repaired in the hbrary, but here too
there is far more work to be done than one assistant can handle.
The library suffered badly under the double handicap of a curtailed
staff and the ever-increasing overcrowding of the shelves.

Statistics

Accessions of cataloged volumes___-__-_____-_______-______ 2, 175
Publications cataloged or recataloged_____________________ 3, 065
Cards added to catalogs and shelf-lists____._._______________ 14, 125
Periodical: parts, entered... 025 le 9, 414
New...exchanges, arranged: 20 00 es ae oe 171
Volumes’ sent ito the bindery 2 222200) 2 oo Nee ee eee 700
Volumes repaired in the library_-_._._--_-_________-__-___-__ 1, 026
Circulation of books and periodicals, main library__________ 10, 412
Books and periodicals assigned to sectional libraries for

intradivisional circulation and filing.__-__._____________ 4,493

Publications.—Thirty-one Museum publications were issued during
the year 1948-49: 1 Annual Report, 3 in the Bulletin series, 25 in the
Proceedings, and 2 numbers of the Contributions from the United
States National Herbarium. A list of these is given on pages 122-123.
Of special interest were two volumes of A. C. Bent’s Life Histories of
North American Birds—one on the nuthatches, wrens, thrashers, and
their allies; the other on the thrushes, kinglets, and their allies—com-
prising the sixteenth and seventeenth parts of this popular series.
The eighteenth part was sent to the printer just before the close of the
fiscal year. The third and concluding part of Dr. Theodor Morten-
sen’s “Report on the Echinoidea Collected by the United States Fish-
erles Steamer Adbatross, 1907-1910” was issued in October 1948 as a
part of Bulletin 100. The 25 papers in the Proceedings of the Na-
tional Museum published during the year encompassed a wide variety
of research based on the Museum collections in zoology and geology.

Volumes and separates distributed to libraries and individuals on
the regular mailing lists totaled 56,950, while 9,509 copies of publica-
tions issued during the current and previous years were supplied in re-
sponse to special requests. About 15,500 more Museum publications
were distributed this year than last.

DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
(Frank M. Serzcer, Head Curator)

In July 1948 the Australian-American Arnhem Land Expedition
moved its first base camp, by means of mission boats and planes, from
Umbakumba, Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, to Yirrkala
in the northeast corner of Arnhem Land. This international expedi-
tion, sponsored by the Commonwealth of Australia, the National
Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution was comprised
of six Australian and four American scientists, including specialists
in archeology, ethnology, zoology, botany, biochemistry, medicine,
nutrition, and primitive art.

Under the leadership of Charles P. Mountford, the initial base
camp was established at Fred Gray’s native settlement at Umba-
kumba, Groote Eylandt, on April 4, 1948. During this period of
3 months, the head curator, Frank M. Setzler, obtained over 100 palm
and fingerprints, hair samples, and taste tests of the various Aus-
tralian natives; made several anatomical plaster casts of the young
and adults for future modeling of life-size exhibition groups; took
hundreds of photographs; and collected numerous ethnological speci-
mens, such as bark paintings, spears, woomeras (spear throwers),
baskets, mats, and canoe paddles, covering a representative series of
their material culture. On Winchelsea Island he excavated some of
the early Malay graves and on the northwest corner of Groote Kylandt
obtained skeletal material of the Australian aborigine; several soil
samples were collected for possible new antibiotics.

Two months were spent at Yirrkala, near the Methodist Aboriginal
Mission Station. This beautiful camp site on the beach of the Arafura
Sea permitted a repetition of anthropological research similar to that
on Groote Eylandt. Here, too, Mr. Setzler was given an opportunity
to excavate Malay and aboriginal sites at Port Bradshaw and Melville
Bay. He also spent 3 weeks on Milingimbi Island, 150 miles east of
Yirrkala. An excellent collection of painted ceremonial skulls and
ceremonial paraphernalia was obtained from the natives on Milingimbi
Island and the surrounding mainland through the kind cooperation
of the Rev. T. H. Hanna, at that time in charge of the Methodist
Mission on Milingimbi. Several trenches were dug in the large pre-
historic shell heaps on the island.

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On September 21 camp was again moved by plane and small coastal
vessels to Oenpelli, 50 miles up the muddy, crocodile-infested East
Alligator River. This camp was located near the foot of the high
escarpment at the western boundary of Arnhem Land. Mr. Setzler
devoted the entire period at this site to the excavation of 12 caves
formerly inhabited by the Australian aborigines. Numerous skeletons
and thousands of chipped stone implements were recovered from these
screening operations. He was extremely fortunate in recovering a
unique hafted adz, which clarified for the first time the use made of
a specific type of chipped quartzite blade. The blade (elouera) was
attached, by means of a cement derived from the roots of the iron-
wood tree, to a short wooden handle. Many of these quartzite blades
were recovered from the caves at Oenpelli; they occur on numerous
surface sites throughout New South Wales. Many theories had been
propounded as to the use of these blades. The finding of this hafted
adz furnishes the first specific evidence as to how these blades were
employed by the Australian aborigines.

The expedition returned to Darwin in November, where all the
anthropological specimens were classified, divided, and packed for
shipment to Adelaide, Sydney, and the United States. The members
were then flown from Darwin to Adelaide. After paying his respects
to the Minister of Information, the Hon. Arthur A. Calwell, whose
interest and cooperation made possible this international expedition,
as well as expressing thanks to the various commonwealth depart-
ments in Canberra for their splendid cooperation, Mr. Setzler left.
Australia by plane on December 1, 1948.

Upon the return of the head curator to Washington, Dr. T. D.
Stewart renewed his physical anthropological field work in Guate-
mala. This project featured the collecting of anthropometric meas-
urements and observations on the living Mayan-speaking Indians of
the highlands. Such data are to serve in comparisons with similar
data of record on the lowland Mayan-speaking Indians of Yucatan.
A secondary phase of the project was the examination of skeletal
remains from archeological sites in the highlands. Skeletons dated
by cultural associations, especially from several time periods, will
supply evidence on the nature of the physical changes that the local
population has undergone. During the 11 weeks, Dr. Stewart meas-
ured nearly 200 Indians and examined a large collection of skeletal]
remains. He first visited the town of Soloma in the Department of
Huehuetenango, where the Indians speak the Kanjabal language.
Later he worked at the town of Santa Clara la Laguna in the Depart-
ment of Solola, where the Indians speak the Quiche language. Be-
tween visits to these places he examined skeletal remains recovered
at Zaculeu, an ancient ceremonial center outside of the city of

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Huehuetenango being excavated and reconstructed by the United
Fruit Co. On June 20, 1949, Dr. Stewart flew to Cuzco, Feru, to
attend as an American delegate the Second Inter-American Confer-
ence on Indian Life held June 24—July 4.

As in the previous year, Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, associate curator in
archeology, again devoted practically all his time to work of the River
Basin Surveys, particularly that having to do with the salvage of
archeological history in the Missouri River Basin. On detail from
May 26 to October 1, 1948, Dr. Wedel supervised field and laboratory
operations of the Missouri River Basin Survey from headquarters in
Lincoln, Nebr. During the winter he made three inspection trips
from Washington to various parts of the Missouri Valley. He left
Washington again on June 16, 1949, to resume the direction of opera-
tions for the third season.

Herbert W. Krieger, curator of ethnology, participated as the Smith-
sonian representative in a series ot meetings at the State Department
relative to participation by the Federal Government in the Port-au-
Prince Bicentennial Exposition in response to the invitation extended
by the Government of Haiti.

At the request of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, John C. Ewers, associate curator of ethnology,
was detailed to duty with the Office of Indian Affairs during the month
of August 1948 to prepare plans for exhibits in the new Museum of
the Southern Plains Indians at Anadarko, Okla. He spent 10 days
supervising Indian Office architects in Washington in the preparation
of detailed exhibit case plans for the Museum and then installed a
temporary exhibition in the Anadarko Museum for the period of the
American Indian Exposition, August 17-21. On completion of the
construction of the exhibit cases, Mr. Ewers was again detailed to
duty with the Indian Office during February 1949. He supervised
the painting of exhibition hall and cases, writing of labels, and instal-
lation of lighting and exhibit materials. While in Oklahoma he
visited the museums of the Oklahoma Historical Society at Oklahoma
City, the University of Oklahoma, at Norman, and the Museum at
Fort Sill, near Lawton, and studied the Plains Indian materials on
exhibition there. He also availed himself of the opportunity to see
the fine collection of old Plains specimens collected by Col. Emil
Landers, in the possession of his widow in Oklahoma City. In St.
Louis he studied the excellent collections of early Indian photographs
in the St. Louis Art Museum and the Missouri Historical Society.

The department’s new associate curator in ethnology, C. Malcolm
Watkins, was detailed from January 22 to 30 to attend a Forum on
Antiques and Decorations held at Williamsburg, Va. He participated
in discussion groups and gave a paper on “European Influences on

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American Glass.” He visited Jamestown and examined archeological
specimens recovered at that site. Similar collections were examined
at the Williamsburg laboratory. From April 4 to 15, and again from
June 11 to 30, 1949, Mr. Watkins visited Time Stone Farm, Marl-
borough, Mass., the home of Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood, where he
examined the collections of objects of early American domestic use
offered as a gift to the Smithsonian Institution by Mrs. Greenwood
and to supervise their packing and shipment to the United States
National Museum.

In addition to the heavy workload carried by this understaffed de-
partment, every spare moment was devoted to research and revitalizing
its exhibits. The department has carried forward the study of man
based on the anatomical, phenotypic, and, whenever possible, the geno-
typic characteristics. In combination with the data obtained through
archeological and ethnological research, the studies are aimed to clarify
the physical and cultural development of man, both on a horizontal
plane (geographical distribution) and from the standpoint of time and
perspective. This 3-dimensional approach to the study of man as a
physical being and the diagnostic cultural traits obtained by controlled
excavations should clarify man’s development over the past 500,000
years. ‘The factual evidence derived from these departmental-wide
studies should contribute to a better understanding of the origin and
development of man, his utilitarian and esthetic arts, and religious
and social institutions.

Because of the lack of appropriated funds for modernizing exhibits,
the proposed plan for hall 11 had to be postponed. Nevertheless, the
department deems it so essential that a compromise program has been
inaugurated whereby considerable improvements can be made with
the present limited staff. At the close of the fiscal year, exhibition
cases and specimens were being rearranged and the first diorama from
the anthropological laboratory was nearing completion.

Three vacancies and two new positions were filled during the year.
C. Malcolm Watkins was appointed associate curator in the division
of ethnology to handle the sections of cultural history. As a result
of his specialization in this field the division has been able to expedite
the hundreds of requests in this rapidly growing field of interest.
The appointment of Eugene P. Greer as scientific helper in the division
of archeology somewhat diminished the work load in this understaffed
division. Miss Lucy H. Rowland, John E. Anglim, and James C.
Dade filled vacancies that occurred as a result of transfers and
resignations.

ACCESSIONS

Even though the number of accessions in the department increased
by 26 percent over the previous year, the total number of specimens

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represented was 1 percent less. A total of 97 accessions, comprising
3,989 specimens, was received in the department. In addition, 110
specimens were added that had not been processed in previous years.
The 97 accessions were distributed among the divisions and sections
within the department as follows: Archeology, 36 (8,351 specimens) ;
ethnology, 29 (406 specimens) ; ceramics, 5 (8 specimens) ; musical
instruments, 1 (1 specimen) ; period art and textiles, 18 (99 speci-
mens) ; physical anthropology, 13 (124 specimens).

Archeology.—The following noteworthy archeological collections
were received: A black-figured Attic lecythus of the fifth century
B. C., presented to President Harry S. Truman as a token of gratitude
from the people of Greece by a delegation led by Christos Zalocostas,
Member of Parliament for Athens, and lent by the President; 11 gold-
plated ornaments from Veraguas, Panama, and 2 gold fishhooks from
Colombia, a gift of Karl P. Curtis; 2 inscribed wooden tablets from
Kaster Island, a gift from H. S. Bissell; 47 prehistoric vessels from
the Valley of Nasca, Peru, presented to the late General John J.
Pershing by former President Augusto B. Leguia and donated to the
U.S. National Museum by General Pershing; 97 earthenware vessels
and other artifacts from Virii Valley, Department of La Libertad,
Peru, transferred from the Bureau of American Ethnology; 813 stone
implements, potsherds, and other artifacts from various archeological
sites in Maryland, collected and presented by Richard E. Stearns;
55 stone artifacts and rejectage from blade manufacture, including a
rare Folsom-type projectile point of black flint, from various sites on
Utukok River, northwestern Alaska, transferred from the U. S. Geo-
logical Survey.

Hthnology.—With three exceptions the ethnologic accessions were
received as unsolicited gifts of individuals. They represent the handi-
crafts and material culture of many of the world’s peoples. Especially
noteworthy is the collection of 51 specimens from American tribes of
the Great Plains and the Great Lakes, of Arizona and New Mexico,
also from the Eskimo of Alaska, the Igorot of the Philippine Islands,
and the Marquesans and Maori of southeast Pacific Oceania, assembled
over a period of more than a century and donated by Georgetown
University.

The President, Harry S. Truman, presented to the Smithsonian
Institution 17 gold-embossed silver vessels received at the White House
as a gift from the Government of Tibet in appreciation of an Ameri-
can gift of wireless receiving and transmitting sets made during
World War II. Included in the gift are two butter lamps and stands,
four teacup stands and covers, two bowls for grain offerings, one
teapot, and two beer mugs, all decorated in gold-embossed designs
drawn from Chinese-Tibetan folklore and inspired by Buddhist re-
ligious art, but entirely Tibetan as to form.

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By gift of the late Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes, the division’s collec-
tions were enriched by a comprehensive gift of 287 folk, costume,
and historical portrait dolls. The folk and costume dolls appear in
native dress representing peoples of many lands: Indians of Western
United States, Mexico, and Guatemala; Hispanic-American types
of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru; Asiatic peoples including Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, Javanese, Siamese, Burmese, Indian, Persian,
Syrian, and Turkish; European ethnic types including Russian,
Serbian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Greek, Czechoslovakian, Italian,
Sicilian, French, Spanish, Scotch, Irish, Austrian, Swiss, German,
Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish,
Latvian, English, and American. The dolls are made of wood, wax,
bisque, china, papier-maché, cloth, ivory, or plaster, and cover a period
from the early eighteenth century to the present. ‘The history of
American costume is represented by a series beginning with the year
1775.

The Noyes collection also includes 24 historically documented por-
trait dolls artistically and faithfully modeled in fabric by Mrs.
Dorothy Heizer. This series portrays queens famous in history
from Nefertete, an Egyptian queen of the fourteenth century, B. C.,
to Queen Victoria of England.

Two important Hispanic-American specimens were received. ‘The
first of these, the Don Diego Columbus table, traditionally known as
the writing desk of Diego Columbus, was conditionally bequeathed
by Mrs. Edith Keyes Benton. The table was fashioned with hand tools
and richly carved from Dominican mahogany early in the sixteenth
century in Santo Domingo City, the colonial capital of New Spain.
Preserved for centuries in the cathedral of that city, it was presented
by the Archbishop Nouel to Commander Frederick L. Benton,
U. S. N., in recognition of his work in Santo Domingo during the
influenza epidemic of 1918. The second noteworthy Hispanic-
American specimen was presented by Sefiora Consuela Bazan de
Segura consisting of a silk hand-made lace luncheon cloth, a so-called
malla bordada with appliqued lace designs embroidered on a knotted
net.

Ju Whan Lee, director of the Korean Court Music Conservatory
at Seoul, Korea, presented one of the rarest of musical instruments—
a musical gong, kyung, carved from white marble. The kyung had
its origin in China, whence it was introduced into Korea. A set of
these gongs consists of 12, each having a different tone. The gong
presented by Mr. Lee was made in Korea in A. D. 1484. It is the
third tone from the lower end of the scale. When struck with the
oxhorn mallet, which accompanied the gift, it produces the tone
known as tai jok.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 11

F. B. Hyde presented a decorated blanket of hand-woven Phor-
mium tenax flax. The specimen was obtained at Wakarewarewa, North
Island, New Zealand, from the great-great-granddaughter of a Maori
chief, its former owner.

Physical anthropology.—Unusual specimens received in this divi-
sion include four casts of fossil primates from Africa. ‘Two of these,
representing Australopithecus prometheus, were received as gifts
from Prof. Raymond A. Dart, while the two others, of Proconsul
africanus Hopwood, were purchased.

Another unusual collection, and at the same time the largest re-
ceived, consists of skeletal remains recovered in northern Australia
by the head curator, Frank M. Setzler, deputy leader of the Australian-
American Arnhem Land Expedition. Although most of these
skeletal remains pertain to native Australians, a few are Malays.
The contrast in physical type between Australian and Malay is most
striking. There are only a limited number of Australian skeletons
available for study in this country; therefore a well-recorded collec-
tion such as this is most welcome.

The second largest accession represents the sixth addition to Dr.
P. F. Titterington’s generous gift of skeletal material from Illinois,
mentioned in previous reports. This year’s gift amounts to 39 speci-
mens and brings the total to 549 specimens.

Distribution and exchange of specimens.—The division of archeol-
ogy distributed 364 specimens (216 cataloged, 148 uncataloged) to
educational institutions; 21 specimens on loan were withdrawn by the
owners. In addition, 217 specimens were lent to six other museums
for study purposes; all but 35 of these specimens were returned during
the year. The original Kensington Stone was temporarily returned
to Minnesota for an exhibit during the State’s centennial year.

Even though the anthropological laboratory was reduced to one em-
ployee during a portion of the year, it was possible to clean, remount,
and repair 20 of the century-old Catlin paintings in order to comply
with the requests of several museums to borrow them. Fifteen col-
lections of ethnological material representing 100 specimens were lent.
In all, 182 ethnological specimens were distributed as open exchanges,
transfers, and gifts.

The division of physical anthropology distributed to various insti-
tutions as open exchanges 12 casts made in the anthropological labora-
tory from the Tepexpan skull and lower jaw. An endocast of the
Tepexpan skull was sent to the Museo Nacional de Antropologia,
Mexico City. Continuing the practice initiated in 1946-47, uncata-
loged skeletal remains from the Huntington collection were sent as
gifts or open exchanges to three teaching institutions.

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Number of specimens under the department.—During the past fiscal
year the department received a net gain of 2,888 specimens, making a
total of 755,193 cataloged specimens on June 30, 1949. The total
number of specimens received amounted to 4,099; however, 1,211 pre-
viously cataloged specimens were distributed as gifts, exchanges, with-
drawn, or transferred to other institutions or Government depart-
ments. The following summary indicates the distribution of speci-
mens in the various divisions and sections within the department:

ALCHEOLO RY oe ei A ale DE RT 521, 654.
BGG To ra Oey se AP aE Dit ee a el 183, 797
GOLAN CS 26 ek 8. 28 Fc hal ek Mel hl ch a 7, 916
Musical. instramien tse aia Aye nlite eee 2, 416
Period. art and textiles: oe en ees eee 2, 584
Physical’ anthropology 222 222 eer a 12 Die ee eee 36, 826
4 C0) 1 alee MR AMPS ry oe NRA TW Rees a er Ml A so VIR de 755, 193

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

As a repository for cultural objects from all over the world, the
department of anthropology is charged with the task of preserving
not only the nonperishable material culture of prehistoric peoples
but also examples of highly perishable objects obtained from living
primitive people and the cherished treasures of past civilizations.
Similar curatorial attention is given to the human skeletal material in
the collections, which ranges in time from the late geological periods
to the end of the nineteenth century. ‘The mere storage of these hun-
dreds of thousands of irreplaceable objects is not enough. ‘They must
be classified, repaired, fumigated, segregated, and cataloged if they
are to be made available to the thousands of annual visitors and schol-
ars of the present day, as well as to future generations of visitors
and students. The specimens that are put on display to tell the story
of man represent only a small portion of the total made available
each year for hundreds of research students as well as the profes-
sional staff of the Institution. An anthropological specimen per se
is of little or no value to the research scholar, and therefore the
department’s staff makes every effort, by means of analysis and com-
parative studies, to determine the source of all material received, to
identify the period of manufacture, provenience, and general ethnic
position, and otherwise to document it fully, before it is officially
cataloged and added to the national collections.

As elsewhere in the Museum, the space problem in the department
of anthropology has reached a crisis. The amount of space avail-
able for the preservation of specimens in an orderly and systematic
manner is utterly exhausted. If additional space cannot somehow
be found and assigned to the department, it can no longer be expected

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that the anthropological collections can be available to students under
optimum conditions. It does not seem wise to encroach further on
the laboratories or exhibition halls; and to refuse to accept new speci-
mens because of lack of space not only will restrict scientific progress
but will defeat one of the Museum’s prime functions—exhibition.

Cataloging—The department cataloged 3,989 specimens received
during the year and 175 specimens received in previous years but
never cataloged.

In the division of ethnology all incoming accessions were fumigated,
cleaned, and repaired as a routine procedure preliminary to catalog-
ing, and all specimens accessioned during the year were numbered,
carded, and entered. Most Americans have a live curiosity concern-
ing peoples living in other lands and are consequently great travelers
and collectors. The division of ethnology is a repository of many
privately made ethnic and cultural collections of merit. Cataloging
of such collections is a major function of the division. Photographs
and sketches are invaluable aids in cataloging newly accessioned speci-
mens. Also useful are shipping tags attached to the specimens bear-
ing numbers corresponding to the collector’s list together with the
common and native name of the specimen, the name of the locality,
and the name of the group or tribe from whom it was obtained.

Considerable time was devoted by the staff in obtaining supple-
mental data regarding accessions made in previous years. For ex-
ample, the division has, in its collection of paintings of Indian sub-
jects, 25 oil paintings by the American artist Joseph Henry Sharp.
Photographs were made in the Museum’s photographic laboratory of
the paintings and submitted to the artist, who was able to add many
valuable data to the information entered on catalog cards in previous
years when the paintings were received as gifts from individuals
whose knowledge of the circumstances involved in the making of the
paintings was limited. Similarly, Mrs. Dorothy Heizer, the artist
who modeled the series of portrait dolls of famous historical queens
included in the collection of Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes, was questioned
by letter regarding her methods, sources of information, and the cir-
cumstances surrounding their creation. ‘The information generously
supplied in her answers was added on the catalog cards to the data
obtained from the donor. In examining a very old collection of
Indian rawhide and bone saddles from the northern Plains Indian
tribes, in connection with a current study of the role of the horse in
northern Plains Indian culture, it was discovered that a series of in-
formative sketches had been pasted beneath each saddle and signed
by George Bird Grinnell. These valuable data were added to the
appropriate catalog cards.

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The division of physical anthropology kept up to date on current
accessions. The Belle Glade collection, which mainly represents the
backlog, was moved at the close of the fiscal year from a storage room
on the ground floor to the fourth floor of the rotunda. This brings
all the Florida collections together and makes this particular collec-
tion more accessible for handling when opportunity comes to complete
this backlog.

A large series of face molds, casts, and photographs of South A fri-
can natives in the division collections was found to lack catalog num-
bers. Upon investigation these specimens proved to have been col-
lected in 1913-14 by Prof. V. Suk, of Czechoslovakia, for the Panama-
California Exposition and to have been accessioned but never
cataloged. At the close of the year these had been listed and catalog
numbers assigned. Some progress was made on the program of mak-
ing history cards for the accessions of past years. Cards are now
complete from the present through the year 1938. The cataloging of
the reprint collection again suffered from the fact that the staff had
little time to devote to this type of work. The effectiveness of the
division’s service and research will be limited as long as this mass of
literature remains inaccessible.

For a 5-month period an extra clerk-stenographer was assigned
to the department to assist in diminishing the accumulated backlog
of uncataloged specimens and the typing of catalog cards. Consid-
erable progress was made in the division of physical anthropology.

Hahibition——Prior to the outbreak of World War II the depart-
ment formulated plans for the modernizing of one of its exhibition
halls. Even though this program is favored by all concerned, the
necessary funds are not as yet available. Nevertheless, a compromise
plan has been adopted whereby certain phases of the original program
can be accomplished by the department’s limited staff. At the close
of this fiscal year specific changes were made in halls 9 and 11. Many
of these rearrangements can be adapted in the original program when
funds permit. Considerable experimentation was required in the
building of a diorama to be used in these halls. The first of these
dioramas, depicting one phase in the life of the Yahgans of Tierra del
Fuego, a primitive group of Indians living in the southernmost in-
habited region in the world, awaits installation. The production of a
light-weight canvas-lined quadrisphere by A. J. Andrews, chief
preparator, represents an innovation in producing this essential sur-
face on which to paint the background and sky of a diorama. In ad-
dition to this large-scale exhibition program, the staff has devoted
considerable time and effort to minor improvements of the exhibits
in their respective divisions.

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Archeology.—This division purchased an exhibit illustrating the
use of tree rings for dating prehistoric ruins in the Southwest. This
interesting display was prepared by the Tree Ring Laboratory at the
University of Arizona. Four archeological exhibits were relocated.
Cultural material from several archeological sites within the District
of Columbia were installed. Mrs. Margaret C. Blaker continued her
review of the division’s archeological collections from New England
in anticipation of revising the exhibits from these States. At the
close of the year negotiations were under way to obtain diagnostic
specimens illustrating the important archeological horizons by means
of an exchange of specimens with another institution.

Ethnology.—tThe exhibits of the Hawaiian alcove at the southwest
corner of hall 7 were entirely rearranged insofar as it is possible to do
so with our limited staff, inexpensive display devices, paint, and mod-
ern installation in our old standard exhibition cases. Dolls from the
Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes collection were installed in two large floor
cases at the east end of the hall of period art and textiles. This pleas-
ing exhibit includes portrait dolls representing famous queens of his-
tory artistically modeled in fabric by Mrs. Dorothy Heizer and based
on documentary source material and contemporary paintings. In-
cluded are: Nefertete, queen of Egypt in the fourteenth century, B. C.;
Cleopatra (69 B. C.—A. D. 30); Berengaria, queen of England and
wife of Richard I, the Lion-Hearted ; Queen Jadwiga of Poland (1371-
1399) ; Margaret of Anjou, queen of England and wife of Henry VI;
Isabella of Castile, queen of Spain (1451-1504) ; Catherine de Medici,
queen of France; Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland; Elizabeth, queen of
England and Ireland; Maria Theresa, wife of the Holy Roman Em-
peror, Francis 1; Catherine II, empress of Russia and wife of Peter
the Great; Marie Antoinette, queen of France, wife of Louis XVI;
Josephine, empress of France, wife of Napoleon I; Louise, queen of
Prussia, wife of Frederick William III; and Victoria, queen of the
United Kingdom of England and Ireland and empress of India.

Two special exhibitions were temporarily installed in the ground
floor foyer, consisting of a selection of portrait dolls from the Mrs.
Frank Brett Noyes collection. The selection embraced a group por-
traying Henry VIII, king of England (1509-1547), based on a Hol-
bein portrait in Windsor Castle; Catherine of Aragon, first wife of
Henry VIII; Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII; Jane Sey-
mour, his third wife; Anne of Cleves, his fourth wife; Catherine
Howard, his fifth wife; and Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of that
much-married monarch. The other special foyer exhibit was the gift
of the President, Harry S. Truman, of 17 gold-embossed silver ves-
sels of domestic and ceremonial use that were received by the White

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House shortly after the close of the war as a gift of the Government
of Tibet. Owing to the difficulties of travel between Tibet and the
outside world, more than a year was required to bring this official gift
from a friendly nation to Washington. The objects in themselves
are interesting because they show the strong influence of traditional
Chinese art designs along with Buddhist inspired religious motifs.
Awe-inspiring were the size and barbaric form of two of the vessels
designed for use as beer mugs.

Continued popular interest in George Catlin’s paintings of North
American Indians was reflected in requests, which were granted, for
the use of selections of his paintings in loan exhibitions by other in-
stitutions, namely : Museum of the Southern Plains Indians, Anadarko,
Okla. (12); Brooklyn Museum (4), for display in an exhibition on
Western Expansion; the Library of Congress (6); and the Minnea-
polis Institute of Art (8), for its Minnesota Centennial Exhibition.

Physical anthropology.—Relatively few changes were made in the
exhibitions under the division’s care. Dr. Marshall T. Newman con-
tinued to improve the new exhibits he had installed in the hallways
on the third floor. At the close of the fiscal year lights were being
installed in the third-floor hall case containing the Tepexpan Man
exhibit. During September this case was moved to the rotunda to
form part of the Institution’s exhibit in connection with the centenary
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Preservation of collections —With the functioning of the Museum
fumatorium, the problem of preserving perishable objects has been
held to a minimum. Since all incoming collections of a perishable
nature are first treated in the fumatorium, a weekly inspection of the
department’s thousands of specimens on exhibition and the frequent
use of our study collections make it possible to forestall any serious
infestation. Adequate space for the classified storage has long been
exhausted. The necessity of crowding more and more specimens into
these limited cases constitutes a most serious preservation problem.

The scientific aides in the division of archeology numbered the
collections as received throughout the year, cleaned and consolidated
the study collections, and rearranged the division’s collections of ar-
cheological specimens from the District of Columbia. Considerable
time was devoted to the identification of unmarked or inadequately
identified specimens among the early acquisitions. All pre-Columbian
gold specimens were removed from public exhibition in 1920, owing
to the lack of adequate protection. These intrinsically and scientifi-
cally valuable specimens, now kept in a vault, were examined and
checked by the curator, Neil M. Judd.

In the division of ethnology the assistant curator, Robert A. Elder,
Jr., continued throughout the year to work on the systematic reclassi-

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fication of the study collections to facilitate ready reference to the
materials. The following categories were arranged in reclassified
storage during the year: African ethnology and the collections from
Madagascar; Polynesian, particularly Hawaiian, materials; ethnology
of North American Indian tribes of the Canadian Northwest, the
Plateau area, the Great Basin, eastern Woodlands, and of the south-
western Pueblo and nomadic tribes. Classification of study collec-
tions from the tribes of Washington, Oregon, and California was in
progress at the close of the year. Important aspects of this work
were the renumbering of many valuable old pieces on which the catalog
numbers had become indistinct and also the checking of specimens of
doubtful cultural allocation with the Museum records and pertinent
ethnological literature. The aid of the technological shops of the
Superintendent’s office contributed greatly to progress made with the
project of reclassification. Five hundred dividing strips were in-
stalled by the cabinet shop in storage cases housing paintings of North
American Indians. Six additional specially designed long-weapon
storage cases were built and installed in the W. L. Abbott room in the
attic storage section. The chief preparator, A. J. Andrews, cleaned
and restored 15 of the George Catlin paintings.

From funds allotted to the division of physical anthropology this
year, sufficient steel was secured to make the new storage racks planned
for rooms 342 and 374. At the close of the fiscal year the racks in
room 842 were completed and the room is being redecorated. The
increased and more accessible storage space resulting from the in-
stallation of these new racks will greatly facilitate the work of the
division. Also, with permanent assignment of drawers to the new
storage space in these two rooms, the finding system can be extended
to 854 more drawers. Since each drawer holds 10 skulls or 3 skeletons,
the number of specimens thus brought under more effective control
runs into several thousand. As time permitted, the scientific aide
continued the work of sorting and rearranging the older collections.
This cannot be carried much farther until additional storage space
becomes available,

Anthropological laboratory.—During the year the anthropological
laboratory performed an unusually wide variety of tasks. For the
division of archeology a duplicate cast in natural color was made of
the Kensington Rune Stone. Painted casts were also made of an ear-
spool and a platform pipe. Several pieces of pottery were repaired.
For the division of ethnology, the shell for the background of the
Yahgan diorama was cast and painted, and numerous figures and
accessories for this exhibit were modeled, cast, and painted. In ad-
dition, 14 Catlin paintings were cleaned and varnished, and another
Catlin picture was mounted, repaired, cleaned, and varnished. Nine

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pieces of Tibetan silver were cleaned, polished, and coated with
lacquer. For the division of physical anthropology 18 casts in
natural color were made of the Tepexpan skull and jawbone, and casts
of a facial fragment were repaired. A large series of life masks was
checked and then stored in the attic. The statue “Columbia’s Call to
Arms,” by Niehaus, and the original model for the Hodgkins medal
were repaired for the National CoJlection of Fine Arts. Four pieces
of Mexican pottery were repaired and restored for the Bureau of
American Ethnology. <A section of an ornament was duplicated for
the Department of Botany, and an articulated life-size manikin was
turned over to the National Air Museum for installation in the Wright
Brothers’ military airplane of 1909. Information on museum preser-
vation and diorama construction was given to numerous individuals
and correspondents. The laboratory continued to keep in repair the
statuary throughout the Natural History Building.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

Several members of the staff were given opportunity for field work
during the year. Moreover, the world-wide scope of the department’s
collections provided opportunities for making contributions to an-
thropological studies, and considerable research has been undertaken.

As a member of the joint Australian-American Expedition to Arn-
hem Land, the head curator, Frank M. Setzler, was given an oppor-
tunity to visit museums and scientific organizations in Brisbane,
Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Adelaide. During the eight
months of continuous tent life in Arnhem Land, he associated with
hundreds of Australian aborigines, made palm and finger prints, ob-
tained hair samples, observed and studied the methods used in the
manufacture of their material culture, such as spears, spear throwers,
dugout and bark canoes, canoe paddles, baskets and mats, bark paint-
ings, and carved wooden figures; accompanied them on their “walk-
abouts,” witnessed their initiation and circumcision rites and their
elaborate ceremonial dances; collected numerous skeletal material dur-
ing the archeological reconnaissance; and systematically excavated
sites on Winchelsea Island, Bartolombo Bay, Port Bradshaw, Yirrkala,
Milingimbi Island, and 12 cave sites at Oenpelli. During his visit to
the capital cities he was given an opportunity to examine the anthro-
pological collections in the various State museums and universities and
to meet the staff members. During these visits and as deputy leader
of the Arnhem Land Expedition, he was called upon to make many
informal and several formal lectures to various organizations and
scientific societies as well as local and overseas radio broadcasts.

Upon his return to Washington, Mr. Setzler prepared a paper on
the unique hafted adz he was fortunate enough to recover in one of the

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cave sites at Oenpelli and a short paper on “The Archeology of Arn-
hem Land,” which he delivered at the annual meeting of the Society
for American Archeology in Bloomington, Ind.

Archeology—Neil M. Judd, curator of archeology, brought his
National Geographic Society report on the material culture of Pueblo
Bonito nearly to completion as the fiscal year ended. A volume on
architecture is next in prospect. Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, associate cura-
tor, worked entirely with the River Basin Surveys. Mrs. Margaret C.
Blaker, scientific aide, spent a considerable portion of her time in the
analysis of archeological materials collected by members of the Dela-
ware Archeological Society and offered to the National Museum in
return for descriptive information. She continued her study of the
division’s archeological collections from the New England States.
From July 1 to August 24, 1948, Mrs. Blaker served as field assistant
to Douglas Byers, director of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for
Archeology, Andover, Mass., during excavations on Wasp Island,
Union River, Ellsworth, Maine.

Ethnology.—The curator, H. W. Krieger, completed the revision of
a manuscript on “Taiwan—the Ilha Formosa of the Portuguese” that
originally had been prepared as a part of a Smithsonian War Back-
ground Study. Attention was given to the completion of manuscripts
based on field work in the Greater Antilles that began in 1928 in the
Smithsonian’s joint biological and anthropological expedition to ex-
plore cave deposits and former Ciguayan Indian village sites in
Samana Province of the Dominican Republic. The Smithsonian’s
Antillean project, which was sponsored by the late Dr. W. L. Abbott,
actually had its inception in 1916, when Dr. Abbott first visited the
caves of the south shore of Samana Bay. The study of fifteenth- and
sixteenth-century historic Indian villages and Spanish settlements in
the Caribbean area was advanced through field work undertaken by
Mr. Krieger from January 15 to May 1, 1947, at sites associated with
the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus in the Bahamas, His-
paniola, and Cuba, under the Smithsonian’s Ernest N. May fund. His
report on this historical phase of the Smithsonian’s Antillean project
is in preparation.

The associate curator, John C. Ewers, continued with his research
on the early culture of the Plains Indians. He completed a draft of
the first five chapters of a study of “The Horse in Blackfoot Indian
Culture.” He also prepared a short paper appraising the significance
of paintings executed by white artists of North American Indians in the
period prior to the development of photography, for publication by the
New York Historical Society. While on special detail to the Depart-
ment of the Interior in February, he examined an anonymous mid-nine-
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Society of the Crow Indians of the period. Believing this manu-
script might have been written by Edwin T. Denig, an exceptional
fur trader of the period, he obtained photostats of pages from the
manuscript and submitted them along with known examples of Denig’s
penmanship to handwriting experts of the Government, who identified
the handwriting of the manuscript as that of Mr. Denig. As a result
of this valuable discovery, the Missouri Historical Society has granted
permission for this eyewitness account of the Crow Indians to be
edited for publication by the Smithsonian Institution.

C. Malcolm Watkins, formerly the curator of Wells Historical Mu-
seum collections at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Mass., and now
associate curator in the division of ethnology, continued with his pre-
viously initiated studies of Colonial American heating and lighting,
glass, and ceramics. He prepared a paper on “Foreign Influences in
American Glass,” which he delivered at Colonial Williamsburg in
January. This was later published in the magazine Antiques. He has
in preparation a paper on eighteenth-century engraved glass used in
America, as well as a paper on iron lighting devices in America. He
has taken comprehensive notes on the division’s collections of lighting
devices in connection with a paper he is preparing on “Artificial Light-
ing in America, 1830-1860.”

Physical anthropology.—Because of administrative duties and ab-
sences from the office, the curator of physical anthropology, Dr. T. D.
Stewart, made little progress on his reports relating to past research.
Having been invited to participate in the conference on Indian life
scheduled to convene in Cuzco, Peru, June 24, 1948, he prepared during
April of that year a paper entitled “Periodical Surveys of the Physical
Quality of American Populations.” This paper focused attention on
the fact that more is known about the size of populations than of their
quality. The Cuzco conference was postponed twice but was finally
held June 24—July 4, 1949. After completing this paper, Dr. Stewart
prepared an article based on the lectures he gave early in 1948 at the
University of Chicago, entitled “Development of the Concept of
Morphological Dating in Connection with Early Man in America.”
This paper was published in the Southwestern Journal of Anthro-
pology. Just before leaving for Guatemala, Dr. Stewart compiled the
literature on the physical anthropology of Latin America for 1947 for
the Handbook of Latin American Studies now being published by the
Library of Congress. Following his return from Guatemala he began
assembling comparative data on Guatemalan Indians,

As already mentioned, the research activities of the associate curator
of physical anthropology, Dr. Marshall T. Newman, were limited by
the workload in the division resulting from Dr. Stewart’s absences.
In addition to advancing his TVA report and extending his bibliog-
raphy on the nutrition of American Indians, he prepared an article on

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North American populations for Collier’s New Encyclopedia, a critical
review of Juan Comas’s “Bibliografia Morfologica Humana de
America del Sur” for the American Anthropologist, and revised his
“Blond Mandan” manuscript for presentation at the annual meeting
of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. At the
end of the year he was working on the sequence of physical types in
South America for the forthcoming Viking Fund summer seminar in
physical anthropology. Also he was preparing two reports on skeletal
material: (1) from the Bynum site in Mississippi and (2) from several
sites in Florida.

Dr. Walter W. Taylor, Jr., collaborator in anthropology, completed
his manuscript “A Study of Archeology,” which was published as a
memoir in the American Anthropologist. He also continued the
analysis of archeological specimens that he obtained during several
seasons of cave explorations in Coahuila, Mexico.

Research by outside investigators.—During the year 83 investigators
did research on the collections for varying periods in the department’s
laboratories and made use of the divisional libraries. In addition,
over 260 specimens were sent to various institutions at the request of
scientists for study purposes. The three divisions received 102 lots
of anthropological material totaling 834 specimens for identification
and prepared formal reports. These identifications, in addition to the
many hundreds of specimens brought in person for which no formal
reports were required, covered all the fields of investigations assigned
to this department. Especially significant were the 16 lots of skeletal
material submitted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for iden-
tification and analysis as to age, sex, and race. The scholars using the
collections came from various parts of the world, such as Seoul, Korea;
Nanking, China; Bagdad, Iraq; Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen,
Denmark; Dundee, Scotland; Oxford, England; Habana, Cuba;
Dominican Republic; Colombia; and Mexico City, D. F.; as well as
from 24 States in the Union.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

(Waxpvo L. Scumitr, Head Curator)

Tue year’s activities in the department of zoology were highlighted
by the participation of a number of staff members in expeditions that
brought the Institution examples of many rare and scientifically
valuable species of animals from little-known parts of the world
largely not represented heretofore in the Museum’s collections.

Three associate curators—Dr. David H. Johnson, division of mam-
mals; Herbert G. Deignan, division of birds; and Dr. Robert R.
Miller, division of fishes—who participated in the Arnhem Land
Expedition to the zoologically little known Northern Territory of
Australia, sponsored jointly by the Commonwealth of Australia,
the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution,
returned in the early months of 1949. The valuable series of mam-
mals, birds, fishes, reptiles, and amphibians obtained, along with ex-
tensive collections of insects, crustaceans, shells, and corals, easily
mark this as perhaps the most important expedition of the year and,
indeed, of several years past. Another expedition of great import-
ance in the value of the collections of birds and mammals made in a
rarely visited region was the National Geographic Society—Yale
University—-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to India and Nepal
under §. Dillon Ripley.

Leaving Washington late in March 1948 and returning in mid-
August of the same year, Donald S. Erdman, scientific aide, division
of fishes, participated in a fisheries survey in the Persian Gulf and
Red Sea under the auspices of the Arabian-American Oil Co. In
the course of the investigation he collected about 5,000 fishes, as well
as numerous marine invertebrates, insects, reptiles, and amphibians.
Dr. Henry W. Setzer, associate curator of the division of mammals,
spent approximately three months, from late in March to early in
June, on a collecting trip to Costa Rica undertaken at the invitation
of the Plywoods-Plastic Corp. Working in the valleys of the Rios
Estrella and Turrialba, he procured about 300 mammals and made
incidental collections of birds and reptiles.

Ornithological field work was continued by Dr. A. Wetmore and
W. M. Perrygo, who had an unusually successful trip to areas of
Panama not explored on their earlier visits to that country; by M. A.
Carriker, Jr., who this year gave special attention to the little-known

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northwestern section of Colombia close to the Panamanian border;
and by Foster D. Smith, in northeastern Venezuela. Charles O.
Handley, Jr., on temporary appointment as assistant curator of
birds, left Washington in March for the Arctic Archipelago, North-
west Territories, Canada, with the objective of collecting Arctic birds
and mammals throughout the summer season.

The year showed a 10-percent increase in the number of specimens
received in the department, even though there was a slight recession
(less than 2 percent) in the number of accessions, and so, in spite of
the fact that nearly 40 percent more specimens were cataloged this
year than last, the backlog of uncataloged or unprocessed material left
at the end of the year was about 9 percent greater than the year
before.

Research activities, as reflected in the number of papers published,
continued at a high level, surpassing last year’s figures. Not less
than 285 published papers based wholly or in part on Museum ma-
terial appeared during the year. Of these, 72 were authored by
members of the staff either alone or jointly with others, 42 were by
entomologists in the division of insect identification, Bureau of Ento-
mology and Plant Quarantine, 18 by members of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, and 153 by outside investigators, aided by members of the
stafi while studying the collections or by the loan of specimens.

Five vacancies on the departmental staff were filled by the fol-
lowing appointments: Dr. Henry W. Setzer as associate curator and
Norman M. Miller as museum aide, division of mammals; Brooke
Meanly as scientific aide, division of birds; Dr. Ernest A. Lachner
as associate curator, division of fishes; and O. L. Cartwright as
entomologist, division of insects. Miss Ruth E. Nylin, clerk-stenog-
rapher attached to the head curator’s office, was transferred to the
division of correspondence and records.

Dr. J. A. Cushman, long the world’s leading authority on Forami-
nifera and official collaborator in Foraminifera in the division of
marine invertebrates since 1928, died on April 16, 1949. Good friend
and valued contributor to the Museum’s publications and collections
that he was, he bequeathed the whole of his scientific library and his
personal, lifetime collection of Foraminifera, especially rich in types,
to the Smithsonian Institution.

ACCESSIONS

The year’s total was 842 accessions, 14 less than last year, comprising
279,621 specimens, an increase of 26,234 over the preceding year. The
receipts by divisions were as follows: Mammals, 63 accessions, 2,035
specimens; birds, 65 accessions, 12,707 specimens; reptiles and am-
phibians, 45 accessions, 1,043 specimens; fishes, 46 accessions, 36,336

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specimens; insects, 240 accessions, 128,143 specimens; marine inverte-
brates, 151 accessions, 40,721 specimens; mollusks, 208 accessions,
58,249 specimens (including helminths, 23 accessions, 230 specimens,
and corals, 4 accessions, 19 specimens) ; and echinoderms, 24 acces-
sions, 887 specimens.

Mammals.—A. collection of 500 mammalian specimens from the
Northern Territory of Australia taken for the Museum by Dr. David
H. Johnson, associate curator, while a member of the Arnhem Land
Expedition constituted one of the year’s more important accessions.
It greatly increases our knowledge of the fauna of that island conti-
nent and brings to the Museum its first representation of many of its
unique species. Likewise, the 180 specimens collected in Nepal by
another expedition, in which the National Geographic Society, Yale
University, and the Smithsonian joined under the leadership of S.
Dillon Ripley, are of very great value to the Museum because they
come from an area previously unrepresented in the national collections
and because the names of so many Asiatic mammals have been based
on Nepalese specimens. Important also is a transfer from the Medi-
cal Corps of the Army. This consisted of 107 mammals from the
Malay Peninsula secured by Maj. Robert Traub and associates in
connection with scrub-typhus investigations. A number of gifts de-
serving special mention include: A collection of 110 small mammals
from New Hampshire presented by Edward A. Preble, which brings
the Museum its first adequate series of several New England species;
90 small mammals from Okinawa, the Philippine Islands, and New
Guinea, collected by the donor, Robert M. Roecker, during World
War II; a skeleton and calf of a pygmy sperm whale from Florida
received from Henry Kritzler; 14 small mammals from Korea pre-
sented by Col. L. R. Wolfe; the skull of the extinct plains grizzly
from North Dakota from Dr. Neal A. Weber; a rare bat, Myotis
subulatus leibii, taken in Virginia and given by Miss Nancy Rogers;
and the skin and a reel of motion pictures of the little-known pichi-
ciego, Chlamyphorus truncatus, of Argentina presented by Dr. José
L. Minoprio.

Birds.—The Arnhem Land Expedition furnished the leading avian
accession of the year. It included 778 bird skins, many of which were
new to the collection, as well as 51 skeletons and 2 eggs. The joint
expedition to India and Nepal returned with 1,164 skins for the
Museum, including many forms not hitherto possessed by the Museum.
As in past years, the W. L. Abbott fund made possible the acquisition
of much valuable material by purchase, or the support of field collec-
tors: 2,815 skins and 38 eggs of Colombian birds collected by M. A.
Carriker, Jr.; 900 skins, 24 skeletons, and 2 sets of eggs of Panamanian
birds collected by Dr. A. Wetmore and W. M. Perrygo; 209 skeletons

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of birds from Liberia; and 95 sets of eggs from Brazil, Venezuela,
British Honduras, and Florida, including a number of species of eggs
new to the Museum. Dr. Wetmore, the Secretary, deposited 2,095
bird skins of his own collection from the Central United States, a
region not well represented in the Museum before. Our first sizable
collection of bird skins from Nyasaland, totaling 611 specimens, was
received as a gift from the late F. C. Walcott. Valuable series from
Newfoundland and Cuba were included in a transfer of 2,817 skins,
4. skeletons, and 2 sets of eggs of North American birds from the
United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Other accessions worthy
of note included the following donations: From Foster D. Smith, Jr.,
177 birds and 2 eggs from northeastern Venezuela, including 2 birds
new to science and much valuable distributional material; from
Sammy M. Ray, i171 bird skins from Pacific war areas; from Col.
L. R. Wolfe, 125 bird skins from Korea; and from BE. J. L. Hallstrom
a specimen of an adult male long-tailed bird-of-paradise, of the genus
Taenioparadisaea, new to the Museum.

Reptiles and amphibians.—As the Museum possessed almost no
specimens of reptiles and amphibians from northern Australia, the
snakes, lizards, and frogs collected by the Arnhem Land Expedition
yielded the most important accession of the year. Other specimens of
value were received as gifts: From George Rozanski, 15 amphibians
collected in the Province of Orellana, Peru, including a Surinam toad,
2 species of poison arrow frogs, and 4 specimens of a very rare species,
Edalorhina perezi; from R. L. Hoffman, 304 specimens from Virginia
and North Carolina, augmenting the large collections from the same
region previously donated by him; and from Dr. H. W. Randel, 68
specimens, including a rare caecilian, Gymnopis m. mexicanus, from
Honduras, from which locality the Museum possesses very little
material.

Fishes.—The division of fishes enjoyed a particularly fruitful year,
receiving, among other valuable material, three unusually outstand-
ing accessions of especial interest and importance in connection with
extended studies of the fishes of the Indo-Pacific being carried on by
the staff. The first of these was a gift of 13,734 fishes by Dr. Wilbert
M. Chapman, now of the Department of State, who collected them
during the late war in the Solomon Islands and the East Indies re-
gion; the second, consisting of 14,800 fishes, was collected for the
Museum by Dr. Robert R. Miller while a member of the Arnhem
Land Expedition; and the third, comprising about 5,000 fishes, came
to the Museum through the participation of Donald S. Erdman,
scientific aide, in a fisheries survey of the Persian Gulf and the Red
Sea, sponsored by the Arabian-American Oil Co. As a result of an
earlier tour of duty in Puerto Rico, Mr. Erdman also collected 969
other fishes which he presented to the Museum during the year. Note-

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worthy donations were received from Vladimir Walters, 425 fishes
that he had collected in Panama; from J. R. Alcorn, 382 fishes col-
lected by himself in British Colombia; and from the University of
Tampa, through Prof. Clyde T. Reed, 300 fishes from the vicinity
of Tampa and Englewood, Fla. Three paratypes of Apodocreedia
vanderhorsti de Beaufort were presented to the collections by the
Zoological Museum of Amsterdam through Dr. L. F. de Beaufort,
and two paratypes of Fagasa diaphana were obtained in exchange
from the Stanford University Natural History Museum.

Insects Entomological accessions of special interest included:
Approximately 25,000 miscellaneous insects from various South
Pacific Islands, collected by Dr. H. K. Townes and R. G. Oakley and
transferred to the Museum by the U. S. Commercial Co.; some 53,000
specimens of miscellaneous insects transferred by the Bureau of
Entomology and Plant Quarantine; the personal collection of Charles
T. Greene, recently retired from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine, and long associated with the division, amounting to ap-
proximately 12,000 specimens of flies; 3,500 chalcidoid wasps donated
by Stewart C. Schell; 469 named beetles of the scarabaeid subfamily
Dynastinae, of which many represent species not heretofore present
in the national collections, received as a gift from Lionel Lacey;
and 2 gynandromorph scoliid wasps as a gift from the University
of Michigan through Dr. T. H. Hubbell (gynandromorph Hymenop-
tera are extremely rare in collections; less than a dozen are known).

Marine invertebrates.—Significant marine-invertebrate material
was received during the year by gift, transfer, and exchange and in
two instances collected for the Museum by members of its staff par-
ticipating in expeditions sponsored in part by the Smithsonian. One
of the more important gifts of the year was the collection of 11,765
miscellaneous invertebrates received from the department of zoology,
University of California, through Prof. Harold Kirby; included were
in part the study collections and several type lots of early marine in-
vertebrate workers who did much to lay the foundation of our present
knowledge of the Pacific North American invertebrate fauna. An
extremely valuable gift consisted of 70 lots of paratypes, hypotypes,
and topotypes of hydroids obtained in the course of the various Han-
cock Pacific and Atlantic Expeditions and described by the late Dr.
C. McLean Fraser. This was received from the Allan Hancock
Foundation, University of Southern California, through Dr. Irene
McCulloch. Other important gifts included: 760 specimens of very
desirable marine invertebrates from California and Mexico, collected
by the donors, Prof. and Mrs. G. E. MacGinitie; 709 marine inverte-
brates, collected by the donor, Dr. A. S. Pearse, at Bimini, Bahama

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Islands; and 1,781 miscellaneous invertebrates collected in the Pacific
Islands and California by Lt. G. S. Mansfield. In addition to the
foregoing accessions, which also in part contained type material, other
types were given to the Museum during the year by the following
authors: Dr. Marian H. Pettibone, holotype and paratype of two
species of polychaete worms; Robert J. Menzies, holotype, allotype,
and paratypes of 11 species of isopods; Dr. Frederick F. Ferguson,
paratype specimens of archiannelid worms; Dr. Olga Hartman,
holotype and paratypes of polychaete worm; Dr. Willis L. Tressler,
type specimens of ostracods; Miss Jocelyn Crane, paratypes of a species
of crab; Dr. Arthur G. Humes, holotype, allotype, and paratypes
of a species of copepod; Dr. Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., holotype, morpho-
type, and allotype of a crayfish; Dr. Charles C. Davis, slide prepara-
tions of holotypes of two species of copepods; Dr. N. T. Mattox, holo-
types and paratypes of a phyllopod; Dr. M. W. de Laubenfels, types
of 12 species of sponges; Miss Mary Jean Lindenschmidt, slide prep-
aration of the holotype of a sponge; and the University of California,
through Dr. Frank A. Pitelka, paratypes of three species of isopods.
A transfer from the Office of Naval Research brought to the Museum
a beautifully preserved collection of 3,668 miscellaneous marine in-
vertebrates made by Prof. and Mrs. George E. MacGinitie, of the
Arctic Research Laboratory at Point Barrow, Alaska; and another
transfer from the Geological Survey 568 specimens of miscellaneous
invertebrates collected in the Marianas Islands by Dr. P. EH. Cloud,
Jr. Fourteen important specimens of alcyonarians, type material,
were secured in exchange from the Zoological Institutionen, Uppsala,
Sweden, through Dr. A. Holm; and 11 from the Naturhistoriska Riks-
museet, Stockholm, Sweden, through Prof. Nils Odhner. In the Per-
sian Gulf and Red Sea, Donald §. Erdman, with the cooperation of
the Arabian-American Oil Co., collected 452 specimens of miscel-
laneous marine invertebrates for the Museum. H. G. Diegnan, Dr.
D. H. Johnson, Dr. R. R. Miller, and F. M. Setzler also collected for
the Museum the 859 specimens of miscellaneous invertebrates returned
by the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Mollusks.—Especially notable among the accessions of the year was
the gift of a new species of the rare deep-water genus Pleurotomaria,
dredged in 160 fathoms off Natal, South Africa, and received from Dr.
Cecil von Bonde. Other gifts of some consequence included 90 lots,
about 250 specimens, of Peruvian land and fresh-water mollusks pre-
sented by George Rozanski; 83 lots, 540 specimens, of marine mollusks,
from Canton Island, received from Dr. Charles A. Ely; 2 paratypes of
the land mollusk, Venia olssoni, from the Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia, through Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry ; 25 lots, approximately

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300 specimens, of which 16 are paratypes and topotypes, of the fresh-
water mollusk L2ttoridina, of Chile, donated by Dr. Walter Biese; and
10 lots of paratypes, 30 specimens in all, of marine, land, and fresh-
water mollusks from California and Idaho from the California
Academy of Sciences, through Dr. Allyn G. Smith. Exchanges with
individuals, as well as institutions, furnished further valuable ma-
terial, as follows: 286 lots, about 1,080 specimens, of Spanish land
mollusks received from Dr. Adolfo Ortiz y Lopez de Zarate; 3 lots, 7
specimens, of rare deep-water South African mollusks, from H. J.
Koch; 17 lots, 98 specimens, of Italian land shells, including 3 para-
types of Helix latina from Prof. Ing. Giovanni Giorgi; 4 lots, 15 speci-
mens, of paratypes of Cuban land and marine mollusks from the col-
lector Dr. C. G. Aguayo; and 3 lots, 5 paratypes, of land mollusks not
heretofore represented in the collection. Important transfers in-
cluded: One from the United States Geological Survey, through Dr.
Harry S. Ladd, 474 lots, about 1,200 specimens, of marine mollusks
collected by Charles G. Johnson in the Caroline Islands; two from the
National Naval Medical Center, 434 lots, about 30,600 specimens of
marine and land shells from Capt. R. H. Draeger, and 146 lots, ap-
proximately 600 specimens, of Solomon Islands marine and land shells
collected by Commander Harry B. Eisberg (MC) from the Naval
Medical School; and a fourth from the Medical Department Research
and Graduate School of the Army, through Col. George W. Hunter, 3d,
consisting of 34 lots, about 150 specimens, of land moliusks on Shikoku
Island, Japan, collected by Hisashi Abe. From the collections made
for the Museum under the auspices of the Arnhem Land Expedition,
227 lots, approximately 1,200 specimens, of mollusks, both land and
marine, accrued to the Museum; and from the fisheries survey spon-
sored by the Arabian-American Oil Co. in the Persian Gulf and the
Red Sea, 123 lots, comprising some 1,500 specimens collected by Donald
S. Erdman.

Helminths.—Seven of the 23 helminth accessions recorded for the
year consisted of or included type material for which the Museum is
indebted to: Dr. Harley J. Van Cleave for the types of five new species
of helminths; Ta Hsuing Chin for the types of two new species; Dr.
J. H. Fischthal, tolotype of a blood fluke; Dr. Merle F. Hansen, holo-
type of a new cestode; Dr. R. Chester Hughes, cotype material of a
new tapeworm; Prof. Leland S. Olsen, 5 syntypes of a new species
of nematode; and Dr. Ivan Pratt, type and paratype of a new trema-
tode.

Corals—Of 19 coral specimens received in 4 accessions, 13 were
collected in the course of the Arnhem Land Expedition to the Northern

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Territory of Australia, and 2 during the fisheries survey of the Red
Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Echinoderms.—Several rarities were included in the year’s acces-
sions in this division: The second known specimen of Ceramaster
planus (Verrill), larger than the type, presented by Roy Latham;
a fine series of 284 specimens of Ceramaster granularis (QO. F.
Miller), a species of starfish heretofore known from American waters
by very few specimens, presented by James R. Miller; the second
known specimen of Ophioncus granulosus Ives, presented by Dr.
Walter K. Fisher; and a very fine example of the sea-urchin Diadema
setosum, collected by Donald S. Erdman in the Persian Gulf and re-
ceived from the Arabian-American Oil Co.

Distribution and exchange of specimens.—In the course of the year
207 transactions were completed, involving the distribution of 35,061
duplicate specimens to various agencies, institutions, and museums
for scientific or educational purposes; 17,791 specimens were sent out
in exchanges, 16,428 as gifts, and 842 as transfers. In addition, 230
photographs were sent out, 3 as exchanges, 224 as gifts, and 3 as trans-
fers. Not all the specimens enumerated above were recorded or cata-
loged. ‘Therefore, in part they do not affect the totals of specimens
in the collections at the close of the fiscal year.

Number of specimens under the department——The summary of
specimens given below is based on the estimates of the previous fiscal
year, with the addition of specimens accessioned during the present
year and the deduction of specimens distributed or removed during the
same period. Specimens prepared for study and permanent preser-
vation aS microscopic slides from material on hand may account for
any unspecified increases in certain of the annual totals. In the
division of mammals, where specimens are not counted as a part of
the collection until they are cataloged, the increase may be smaller
than the number of specimens accessioned. Also, with the discarding
or condemnation of specimens that have deteriorated or are no longer
deemed suitable for retention, decreases not otherwise accounted for
will occur. The figures of early estimates were approximate and the
totals based on them are revised from time to time. A. reasonably
careful tabulation made of the collection of insects at the beginning
of the current fiscal year gave an approximation of 11,500,000 speci-
mens. Adding those accessioned during the year, less distributions,
the total becomes 11,620,103. No estimate was ever made of the corals.
In several divisions lots consisting of minute organisms are frequently
counted as single specimens, though they may contain hundreds and
even thousands of individuals, the enumeration of which would serve
no useful purpose.

858769—50——3

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The totals of specimens in the respective divisions and for the de-
partment are as follows:

Mammals a oa en 255, 869
Birds
Sing eh OR SG! SU 320, 841
Skeletonseee) aki dau se. ee EE 19, 069
Acoli lies (ici 2 ida sath aly ih sh aia all cof 10, 118
Fg ks ah len ae eda gig I 93, 570
INGSBS eee Pare nis enact acu C nM eee aI RUNG aN 3, 741
447, 339
Reptiles‘and/ amphibians! oii 7 eo 0 eee 137, 038
QF) oYs eM a ee Pe ie ne An DS RN Nae USN 1, 464, 411
FSe@@ Gs ii) se oh) Oi tees ee AW ee 11, 620, 103
Marinevinvertebrates ii. ye a es a 1, 206, 719
DAS [6y Up ey tpg a ee ys NE ahs i 9, 250, 000
EL el MIN Ghs ee hi O hE hE), Be WANs HN ihe Me as EN NCI ee 44,400
Mehinodermas i852 ca Sato en) Ne An 179, 137
gt oy or 8 A Peeea nrc Np Sane AU OME aT SGI AMIRI Ty MA AL 24, 605, 016

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

Cataloging.—During the year 94,289 specimens or lots of specimens
were cataloged or processed, while 225,597 specimens were accessioned.
The backlog of uncataloged specimens remaining at the end of the year
totaled 1,115,041, an increase of 65,177 specimens over last year’s total.

Exhibition.—W ork on long-planned habitat groups for which the
mounted animals have been completed was held in abeyance for lack
of cases. The taxidermist staff, under the direction of W. L. Brown,
chief exhibits preparator, kept busily engaged in making improvements
in the exhibition series wherever possible. ‘The cleaning of cases and
the refurbishing of specimens on exhibition constitute a continuing
operation, which includes straightening up labels, checking the fixtures
of illuminated cases, making repairs and replacements where necessary,
and fumigating all mounted specimens. The whale hall, including the
material in the cases as well as that on the floor and on the walls, was
gone over completely. Specimens and models on the walls and sus-
pended from the ceiling in the fish and reptile halls were likewise given
attention.

Four cases of mounted birds were modernized. The sides and back
were covered with monks-cloth and the cases equipped with overhead
fluorescent lighting. So treated and reinstalled in the public halls
were the hoatzin group; the shoe-billed storks, formerly displayed on
a mahogany base; the satin bowerbird group, which was enlarged and
enhanced; and a case containing various species of European upland
game birds. A fifth case in this series showing the curious and bizarre
forms and patterns of the toucans of the American Tropics was com-
pleted in the shop but not in time to be placed on exhibition before the

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close of the year. The ptarmigan groups, winter and summer, were
given needed cleaning and repair.

Some work was accomplished on contemplated future exhibits.
Eleven miniature models and cases were completed and five full-sized
models. Molds and casts, as well as celluloid, plastic, and rubber re-
productions of some 25 or more animals or parts of animals, were
finished, as were also several sections of ground work for reptile dis-
plays and 32 casts of rock formations for the walrus exhibit. Seven
specimens were removed from exhibition and replaced by a like num-
ber. Sixty-nine individual mounted animals were cleaned and re-
paired, most of them being the mounted heads hung in the east and
west stairways of the Natural History Building. The specimens and
cases of the index exhibit in the main hall of the Smithsonian Building
were also cleaned.

In the division of insects about one-half of the Iddings exhibition
collection of butterflies (Rhopalocera) was blocked and matted by
W. D. Field, associate curator, but must await completion of appro-
priate labels before it can be again placed on public display.

Mammals.—A_ major accomplishment of the year in the division of
mammals was the rearrangement of the collection of rodent skins by
Dr. Setzer and Mr. Miller. This involved shifting approximately
50,000 specimens and relabeling the cases. The work of rearranging
the specimens in the trays and bringing tray and specimen labels up
to date yet remains to be done. The usual program of inspecting
specimens and replenishing preservative and insect-repellent materials
was carried out, except that complete fumigation of the skin collection
was deferred until after the meeting of the American Society of Mam-
malogistsin June. Some progress was made in the installation of new
material in the main collection.

Birds.—The continuation of the work of merging the Fish and
Wildlife Service bird collection with that of the Museum was carried
about halfway through the ducks, and a very considerable amount of
rearranging and expanding of badly crowded portions of the collec-
tion was accomplished, chiefly by Mr. Deignan. The families Picidae,
Capitonidae, Indicatoridae, Bucconidae, Galbulidae, and Ramphas-
tidae, totaling thousands of specimens occupying 38 quarter-unit cases
and 2 half-unit cases, were so treated. In connection with the merging
of the Fish and Wildlife Service and Museum collections, the contents
of about 35 half-unit cases were shifted and rearranged. Several
thousand old specimens were reidentified and labeled. All the birds
accessioned during the year were identified to species and cataloged.
All new lots, as well as the main collection, were thoroughly poisoned.
A small number of specimens of skeletons, alcoholics, nests, and eggs
were processed and incorporated into the main collections.

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Reptiles —Owing to the fact that the barrels used for the storage of
larger reptilian specimens are deteriorating and that better containers
cannot be secured for them, extensive skinning of the turtles so stored
was undertaken. Some progress was made in this connection by the
skilled laborer attached to the division. The wooden “air raid”
screens make ready and frequent inspection of the alcoholic collection
difficult, so that the collection cannot be said to be in the best of con-
dition. Several skins were made up by the taxidermist force dur-
ing the year.

Fishes.—The crowded condition of the alcoholic stacks in the divi-
sion of fishes was improved by the installation of 35 dollies for holding
crocks, freeing 70 shelves for bottle storage. In addition, 249 new
shelves were installed. Cataloging, bottling, labeling, and filing of
all smaller incoming collections were kept up to date. All containers
were checked during the year by James E. Bush, skilled laborer. On
the whole, the collection may be said to be in a satisfactory physical
condition.

Insects —O. L. Cartwright, associate curator, who joined the ento-
mological staff in August, assumed the responsibility for the collection
of Aphodiinae, consisting of approximately 40 museum drawers of
unworked, mixed, and undetermined material, and since that time
determined the specimens largely to genus, separated out American
specimens, and identified about 90 percent of the segregated speci-
mens to species and placed them in labeled trays. Further, the en-
tire collection of coleopterous larvae was examined and put into
excellent condition. Mrs. R. E. Blackwelder, working with Dr.
Blackwelder, rendered a great deal of personal service, increasing
many times the current usefulness of the Thomas L. Casey library
housed in the division of insects. The Satyridae from the E. A.
Smyth collection of Rhopalocera was incorporated into the regular
collections by W. D. Field, associate curator. Six genera of Nym-
phalidae and Satyridae were studied and rearranged according to
modern revisions.

Specimens of Collembola, Thysanura, Entotrophi, and Protura
identified during the year were sorted and placed in jars for inter-
calation in the collection. For purpose of identification it is neces-
sary to make one or more permanent slides, which are then added to
the permanent slide collection. The alcohol in the entire collection
was replenished; all the types were segregated, arranged systemati-
cally, and transferred to jars; and the whole of the collection of
Poduridae was checked and placed in new containers where necessary.
Grace E. Glance, associate curator, who has looked after most of the
other groups in this section, has also taken over the Symphyla ma-
terial and given it the same care, at the same time making cards for

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each lot. The Thysanura are still on loan to Dr. C. L. Remington at
Yale University.

During the year some progress was made in processing the Lepi-
doptera; and the entire collection of scorpions was examined and
virtually all specimens identified at least to genus, putting that col-
lection in excellent condition and making it available for serious
work. The chilopods and pseudoscorpions were also rearranged.
The Solpugida were taken over by Dr. Martin H. Muma, of the
University of Nebraska, for the purpose of preparing an exhaustive
report on the North American species. Richard L. Hoffman, Uni-
versity of Virginia, continued work on the diplopods under a grant
from the Smithsonian Institution. The alcoholic collections of
chilopods, diplopods, pseudoscorpions, scorpions, Solpugida, and
spiders are now in good to excellent condition.

Marine invertebrates.—The skilled laborer, N. L. Livingston, spent
considerable time this year in caring for the echinoderm collections
and so found it impossible to refill the alcoholic lots of marine in-
vertebrates as systematically as has been done in the past years.
Nevertheless, the entire collection was gone over in a cursory manner
and all jars that showed an unusual amount of evaporation were
refilled. In addition, all large crocks were opened, refilled, and
sealed with wax. Little progress was made with the inventory of
the collections, but all the barnacles, the Nebaliacea, Anaspidacea,
mysids, tanaids, and most of the isopods were checked and now may
be added to the list of groups inventoried in previous years. The
dry collection stored in the attic was in part rearranged by F. M.
Bayer, assistant curator, and G. 8. Cain, scientific aide, so that addi-
tional material could be filed in an orderly manner and more room
provided for expansion. Mr. Bayers’ interest in the alcyonarians,
most of which are dry, brought the matter to a head. All identified
slide material received during the year was cataloged. He also en-
gaged in some experimentation to determine the feasibility of mount-
ing a reference collection of various invertebrate groups in plastic.
Mr. Cain rearranged the collection of maps and charts and practically
completed an inventory of the entire divisional library, an important
task required periodically in order that misfiled publications can be
returned to their proper place and be available for reference.

Mollusks—The physical condition of the dry and alcoholic study
collections of shells is good. The program of rearrangement of these
collections was continued, and a start made on the integration of all
Hawaiian, Japanese, South African, and Bikini marine collections
into one Indo-Pacific collection. At the same time, the large amount
of accumulated, recently cataloged material was incorporated. The
arrangement of the naiad collection was also continued and some

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progress made in the rearrangement of the East Atlantic marine col-
lection. The whole staff devoted many hours of concentrated effort
to renumbering the index cards to the books in the library, with the
result that now the entire section library is correctly indexed and
properly arranged.

Helminths, corals, and echinoderms.—The helminth collection of
alcoholic specimens and microscopic slides is in good physical condi-
tion, with the cataloging of current accessions up to date. However,
much of the Henry B. Ward collection received several years ago still
awaits cataloging. The coral collection, for want of the necessary
staff, has received no curatorial overhauling in recent years. The
usual work of preparing specimens of echinoderms and cataloging
them was continued, and, in spite of the increased amount of material
received, the general condition of the collection was improved. |

Taxidermist shop.—in addition to their responsibility for the con-
tinuing care, installation, and improvement of the division’s exhibits,
the preparators and taxidermists rendered various necessary and useful
services to the mammal, bird, and reptile divisions, among which may
be enumerated: Skinning and making up the skins of 46 mammals
and 41 birds; degreasing and remaking 89 bird skins; skinning 6 mam-
mals, 2 turtles, and 1 lizard; beaming 6 mammal skins; cleaning 805
mammal skulls and 28 skeletons and 91 bird skeletons and 31 trunks;
roughing out 13 mammal skulls and 3 skeletons and 33 bird skeletons;
and blowing 2 eggs.

The chief exhibits preparator and his staff, moreover, devoted an
appreciable part of their time to giving instruction in museum methods,
technique, and laboratory and field preservation of natural history
specimens, this year spending nearly four weeks, all told, instructing
and supervising the work of eight individuals, including two from
Latin America and one each from Egypt and the Philippines. As-
sistance was also given on four or more occasions to various parties
photographing exhibits or portions of them to illustrate scientific and
popular publications. In all, the taxidermists completed 219 requisi-
tions in the course of the year.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

Mammals.—Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the Museum and
curator of mammals, has been assisting Gerrit S. Miller with the re-
vision of the check-list of North American mammals, and considerable
progress has been made in defining limits of ranges and intercalating
published changes in taxonomy. He also made some progress on his
revision of the Brazilian monkeys of the genus Cebus, spending some
time studying comparative material in European museums at the close
of the year. Dr. David H. Johnson, associate curator, continued to

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work on the mammals collected during World War II in the Pacific
Ocean area and made notes on specimens in Australian museums dur-
ing the year for incorporation in the revision of the bats of the genus
Chalinolobus that he has under way. Dr. Henry W. Seizer, associate
curator, made preliminary studies of the material collected in the Nile
Valley by P. Quentin Tomich for the U. S. Naval Medical Research
Unit No. 3 with a view to making a report on the mammals. Philip
Hershkovitz, of the Chicago Natural History Museum, continued his
series of preliminary reports on the collections made by him in northern
Colombia under the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship.
Of these reports the one on the monkeys and the one on the bats were
published during the year.

Birds.—The curator of birds, Dr. Herbert Friedmann, published a
book, “The Parasitic Cuckoos of Africa,” and accomplished some re-
visionary work on the manuscript of part 11 of the “Birds of North
and Middle America” before it went to press. As time permitted,
work was continued on part 12 of this work. A large report on north-
eastern Venezuelan birds with Foster D. Smith, Jr., and a paper on
the breeding behavior patterns of the weaverbirds were completed,
and six shorter papers and a number of book reviews were published,
as well as two papers with Dr. A. Wetmore relative to work of the
American Ornithologists’ Union Check-List of North American birds.
During the year Dr. Friedmann took over much of the work of
preparing revisions of ranges of the passerine birds of North America
for the new Check-List, and contributed bibliographic data on the
ecology of marine birds and on the paleoecology of birds to the Report
of the Committee on a Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology
of the National Research Council. H. G. Deignan, associate curator,
continued work on his critical catalog of the type specimens of birds
in the Museum and on his check-list of the birds of the Indochinese
Region. In connection with the latter, numerous revisionary studies
were made leading to the publication of two short papers and the pro-
duction of other studies on Oriental birds. Dr. A. Wetmore devoted
most of his research time to the preparation of various items connected
with the fifth edition of the A. O. U. Check-List of North American
birds, to work on his collections from Panama and Colombia, and to
studying some fossil bird bones, publishing papers on a Pleistocene
record for the American merganser in Illinois and on the pied-billed
grebe in Mexico.

Reptiles and amphibians.—Dr. Doris M. Cochran, associate curator,
about completed the text of her large manuscript on the frogs of
southeastern Brazil and continued work on the illustrations, most of
which yet remain to be made. She also assisted a number of students
with their herpetological problems during the year.

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Fishes.—Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, curator of fishes, assisted for vary-
ing periods of time by Loren P. Woods, of the Chicago Museum of
Natural History, Dr. Edward A. Raney, of Cornell University, and
Dr. Ernest A. Lachner, associate curator, has been engaged for the
greater part of the year in the preparation of a comprehensive de-
scriptive catalog of the fishes of the northern Marshall Islands, based
on collections made at the time of the Bikini atom-bomb experiments.
This umportant project is about three-fourths complete, 49 families of
fishes, involving 334 species, having been worked up. Five papers
were published by Dr. Schultz, two jointly with Loren P. Woods, while
a sixth, also with Mr. Woods as joint author, entitled “Keys to the
Genera of Echelid Eels and the Species of Muraenichthys of the
Pacific, with Two New Species,” was accepted for publication and
sent to the printer. Dr. Robert R. Miller, associate curator, pub-
lished three papers, two with Dr. C. L. Hubbs and one with R. G. Miller,
dealing with the fresh-water fish fauna of the Western States, and a
fourth with Donald S. Erdman on “The Range and Characters of
Synchirus gilli, a Remarkable Cottid Fish of the Northeastern Pacific.”

Insects—Dr. E. A. Chapin, curator of insects, published two short
papers, of which one dealt with the type material of the Charles
Schaeffer species of Cleridae in available collections; lectotypes were
designated for all species. Further work on the Coccinellidae of Co-
lombia was made possible by a three weeks’ visit to the British
Museum. There a study of all available types of Neotropical Cocci-
nellidae made possible the identification of most of the Colombian
species of Hyperaspinae. The associate curator, Dr. R. E. Black-
welder, carried forward two research problems, both largely biblio-
graphic: the first, part 6 (the bibliography) of the Checklist of Latin
American Coleoptera, continued vigorously with the help of Mrs.
Blackwelder; and the second, the study of the generic names of
Staphylinidae, comprising about 1,000 pages of manuscript, dealing
with the genotypes, synonymy, and orthography of over 2,500 names.
As a result of studies made in this connection, Dr. Blackwelder un-
dertook the preparation of a first draft of an exhaustive essay on
principles and practices of genotypy and also devoted considerable
time to nomenclatorial problems for the National Museum Nomencla-
ture Discussion Group.

Since there are no published catalogs for the Collembola, Thy-
sanura, Entotrophi, and Protura, Miss Grace E. Glance, associate
curator, was forced to spend a great deal of time working with liter-
ature. Collaborating with other interested workers and keeping in
close touch with the files of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine, she built up a fairly complete file of references for the
Collembola and made some. progress with author catalogs of the
other groups.

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O. L. Cartwright, associate curator, gave special attention to the
Museum collection of Aphodiinae, with a view to revising American
genera and species of the group, beginning with the genus Psammo-
dius. 'The trophi, particularly the epipharynx, of the various genera
and species of the Aphodiinae are being carefully examined in the
hope that additional useful characters may be found for separating
genera and species.

In the Lepidoptera, W. D. Field, associate curator, continued re-
search toward the revision of New World Lithosiinae. He completed
and submitted for publication a manuscript revising four genera in
this subfamily and essentially completed the study of two more except
for about half of the manuscript. Two hundred genital preparations
were made in connection with these studies and three hundred addi-
tional in a single genus in connection with a revision of the New World
Theclinae, doubling the number of known species in the genus. Two
hundred reference slides of wings, representing 100 genera and groups
of Rhopalocera, were also made in continuation of work on the family
classification of Rhopalocera.

Marine invertebrates.—The curator of marine invertebrates, Dr. F.
A. Chace, Jr., completed and submitted for publication an exhaustive
study of the oceanic crabs of the genera Planes and Pachygrapsus,
as well as a brief survey of the spiny lobsters of the world. He con-
tinued work on a review of the anomuran crabs of the family Porcel-
lanidae from West Africa and the revision of the coral crabs of the
genus 7rapezia initiated earlier. The associate curator, P. L. Illg,
published a paper on the family status of the rare copepod genus
Pharodes and continued his investigations on the commensal copepods
of the cyclopod family Lichomolgidae and of certain notodelphyoid
genera, and on the generic status of some of the copepod parasites
of fishes. Though not neglecting the handbook of the West Indian
Alcyonaria, which he has in preparation, F. M. Bayer, assistant
curator, completed a review of the Alcyonaria of the Albatross
Hawaiian cruise and the descriptions and diagnoses of a new sub-
family, genus, and two new species of Chrysogorgiidae. C. R. Shoe-
maker, associate in zoology, completed three manuscripts during the
year and continued his studies of the American amphipods of the
family Talitridae. Mrs. Mildred S. Wilson, collaborator in copepod
Crustacea, whose studies had been interrupted by her removal to
Alaska and by illness, resumed active work on the commensal and
parasitic copepods in which she was especially interested, as well as
on the larger monographic treatment of the species of Diaptomus she
had also undertaken.

The untimely death of Dr. J. A. Cushman, collaborator in Forami-
nifera, resulted in a need for greater emphasis on that group within
the Institution. With this end in view, plans were laid for the trans-

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fer of the collection of Recent Foraminifera to the Division of In-
vertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany, where it will be incor-
porated with the fossil forms.

As in past years, volunteer specialists in other institutions, to whom
the Institution is greatly indebted for the services rendered, kindly
identified material of various groups at our request. A total of 44
shipments, five more than last year, representing more than 1,250
specimens, were sent to 25 such workers as follows: Donald P. Abbott,
tunicates; Dr. Albert H. Banner, mysidacean crustaceans; Mrs. G. C.
Carl, cumacean crustaceans; Dr. Wesley R. Coe, nemertean worms;
Dr. Elisabeth Deichmann, alcyonarians; Dr. W. K. Fisher, echiuroid
and sipunculoid worms; Dr. John S. Garth, crabs; Dr. Gordon E.
Gates, earthworms; Dr. Olga Hartman, polychaete worms; Dr. Mel-
ville H. Hatch, isopod crustaceans; Joel W. Hedgpeth, pycnogonids;
Dr. Dora P. Henry, barnacles; Leslie Hubricht, amphipod crusta-
ceans; Dr. H. Gordon Jackson, isopod crustaceans; Dr. R. W. Kiser,
cladoceran crustaceans; Dr. M. W. de Laubenfels, sponges; Dr. Folke
Linder, branchiopod crustaceans; Dr. N. T. Mattox, conchostracan
crustaceans; Robert J. Menzies, isopod crustaceans; Dr. Marvin C.
Meyer, leeches; Stanley Mulaik, isopod crustaceans; Dr. Raymond C.
Osburn, bryozoans; Dr. Edward G. Reinhard, rhizocephalan crusta-
ceans; Dr. Wilbur M. Tidd, copepod crustaceans; and Dr. Willis L.
Tressler, ostracod crustaceans.

Mollusks.—Dr. Harald A. Rehder, curator, worked on several small
problems connected with the Antillean marine fauna and continued
his researches on terrestrial mollusks. The associate curator, Dr.
J. P. E. Morrison, was steadily engaged with the marine mollusks of
Bikini and the northern Marshall Islands, studying in particular the
families Muricidae, Cymatiidae, Bursidae, Trochidae, and Halio-
tidae, while continuing in part his research work on the Pleuroceridae,
Melaniidae, and Amnicolidae. The assistant curator, R. Tucker
Abbott, accomplished considerable research on the anatomy and
speciation in the group of the fresh-water mollusk Tiara (Tarebia)
granifera Lamarck and, in collaboration with Col. George W. Hunter,
3d, U.S. A., completed a paper on snail hosts of Schistosoma in Japan.
He also published several small papers during the year. Dr. Paul
Bartsch, associate in mollusks, practically finished his larger work on
the Cuban members of the land snail family Urocoptidae, and also
worked on two papers dealing with Mexican Urocoptidae and the west
American Turritidae.

Echinoderms.—The curator, Austin H. Clark, published or has in
press four papers on sea-stars, sea-urchins, brittle-stars, and crinoids
from Indo-Pacific and Atlantic waters, and completed his study but
not the manuscript report on a large and diverse collection of echino-

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derms taken from buoys and mooring chains on all coasts of the
United States (except Alaska) and submitted by the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution. He also nearly completed a report on the
echinoderms of the United States Navy Antarctic Expedition 1947-48
and began work on the brittle-stars brought together over a period of
several years by Dutch surveying steamers in the Netherlands East
Indies. The manuscript of the next part of Mr. Clark’s “Monograph
of the Existing Crinoids” (Bulletin 82) went to the printer late in
the year.

Research by outside investigators.—A total of 474 outside investi-
gators or serious students of some field of zoology consulted or studied
collections or worked in our laboratories for varying periods of time
from an hour or two to many months, besides uncounted, often casual,
lay visitors seeking more or less popular or general scientific informa-
tion, the classification of animals they have encountered, or the identi-
fication of objects of a biological nature from various sources.

Well over 50,000 specimens, approximately the same number as in
the preceding year, in 331 separate shipments, 19 less than last year,
were lent for study elsewhere. Some 38,689 specimens were sent to
the department in 614 transactions with requests for determinations.
From these and earlier shipments and accessioned material over 51,-
000 were identified by members of the departmental staff. In addi-
tion, the staff handled 115 manuscripts for about as many authors,
giving advice concerning them, revising, editing, or evaluating them.
A great deal of specialized and miscellaneous zoological information
was also furnished in response to inquiries made by letter and tele-
phone. The requests were many and varied, covering such subjects as
lists of animals occurring in certain regions; the distribution or
known ranges of various animals; descriptions of particular animals;
lists of books and references; comparison of a specimen or specimens
submitted with types or other authoritatively determined specimens
in our collections; information concerning the host, parasite, or
ecologic relations of specific animals; medical importance, economic
use or value, habits, longevity, and reproduction of animals; the pos-
sibilities of successfully instituting commercial fisheries for certain
animals in particular parts of the world; the propagation of various
species for profit ; advice on equipment and personnel for expeditions;
methods of preserving, mounting, and displaying different kinds of
animals; and construction of display cases, making of accessories, and
illumination of exhibits.

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY
(E. P. Kiturp, Head Curator)

Tue department of botany completed its first year with its present
organization of four divisions, phanerogams, grasses, ferns, and
cryptogams, the division of ferns having been established on July 1,
1948, with C. V. Morton as curator. In September Dr. Albert C.
Smith assumed his position as curator of the division of phanerogams,
to which were appointed as assistant curators Miss Velva E. Rudd and
Miss Sylvia A. White. Mr. Morton replaced Mr. Killip as acting
curator of the division of cryptogams. Dr. O. F. Cook, of the De-
partment of Agriculture, who served for many years as an honorary
curator of the cryptogamic collections, died on April 23, 1949.

The increase in personnel during the past two years was strongly
reflected in greater activity in many lines. Several papers were sub-
mitted for publication, and progress was made toward the completion
of others. Through the concentrated efforts of members of the staff,
the number of duplicates distributed to other institutions and individ-
uals as exchanges showed a marked increase over recent years. Ac-
cessions were somewhat smaller in both number of specimens and lots
than in 1947-48, owing largely to the fact that two cryptogamic col-
lections of unusual size were accessioned in the preceding year. Speci-
mens submitted for identification showed considerable increase over
the preceding year, several large lots having been received from col-
lectors working in Colombia. As usual, much material was lent for
study, the number of specimens being much greater than last year
though the individual lots were fewer.

The work of repainting the entire herbarium hall and installing
lights in the east half was completed in September, in time for a re-
ception given by the department to botanists attending the meetings
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and af-
filiated societies. More than 125 guests were present at this gathering,
including visitors from India, South Africa, Sweden, Canada, and
several Latin American countries.

At the invitation of the Instituto Miguel Lillo, the head curator,
Mr. Killip, and Dr. Lyman B. Smith, associate curator in charge of
the South American collections of the division of phanerogams, at-
tended the Second South American Botanical Congress at Tucum4én,
Argentina. At the conclusion of the congress the delegates partici-

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pated in a 10-day excursion, which covered much of northwestern
Argentina. After a short visit to Buenos Aires, where, with other
botanists, they visited several herbaria and attended a reception given
by the President of the Republic, Mr. Killip returned to the United
States by way of the west coast and Dr. Smith by the east coast.
Mr. Killip spent several days in Chile, in the course of which he made
large collections in the Santiago-Valparaiso region in company with
Senior Edmundo Pisano, of the Chilean Department of Agriculture.
After a brief stay at Lima, Mr. Killip proceeded to Colombia, where
he continued field work and herbarium studies at Cali, Medellin, and
Bogota, and had numerous conferences with local botanists. The
concluding portion of his trip was spent at Barro Colorado Island,
maintained as the Canal Zone Biological Area by the Smithsonian
Institution. Dr. Smith, after leaving Buenos Aires, visited Sao
Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, calling at the important herbaria in those
cities and making collections.

Dr. EK. H. Walker, associate curator in the division of phanerogams,
attended the Seventh Pacific Science Congress, held in New Zealand
between February 2 and 22. He remained in that country, under the
auspices of the University of New Zealand, for about six weeks after
the adjournment of the congress to carry on field work and to become
acquainted with the numerous institutions engaged in botanical study.
Many localities throughout the two main islands and Stewart Island
were visited, and a total of 1,224 field numbers and about 3,400 speci-
mens are represented in his collections. While in New Zealand Dr.
Walker delivered ten talks on botany before various groups; he also
had numerous conferences with botanists, advising them on recent
advances in the techniques of plant collecting and preparation. Ar-
rangements were made for the exchange of material with the United
States National Museum.

At the request of the Division of Forage Crops and Diseases, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Jason R. Swallen, curator of grasses,
visited the Experiment Station at Madison, Wis., and the Great Plains
Field Station at Mandan, N. Dak., in connection with the forage-crop
work being carried on at these places. Field studies and identifica-
tions were made and pertinent material collected. He spent three
weeks in Texas making a survey of the grasses of the Kingsville region
at the request of Dr. C. L. Lundell, director of the Texas Research
Foundation, and collected approximately 2,000 specimens.

Dr. George A. Llano, associate curator of cryptogams, left in June
for three months of field work in Alaska. The project, sponsored by
the Arctic Institute of North America, consists of general field collect-
ing and a special study of the ecology of the lichens of the Arctic slopes
of the Brooks Mountains in northern Alaska.

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Paul S. Conger, associate curator in charge of the diatom collec-
tions, spent two months during the summer of 1948 at the Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory, Solomons Island, Md., doing field work in
collaboration with members of the staff of that institution.

Research Associate F. A. McClure spent nearly 9 months in Guate-
mala, El Salvador, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad,
supervising bamboo plantings and experimental work on the propa-
gation of bamboos, with the aim of establishing them as a commercial
crop. Herbarium material of native bamboos was collected for event-
ual incorporation in the National Herbarium.

ACCESSIONS

During the year 38,708 specimens in 408 lots were accessioned by the
department, in comparison with 54,292 specimens and 402 lots received
in 1947-48. This material was divided among the divisions as fol-
lows: Phanerogams, 27,452 specimens; grasses, 5,017; ferns, 2,500;
cryptogams, 3,789. Several large collections contained important
material for three or four of the divisions. Among these were two
lots, with 2,382 specimens, collected in Fiji by Dr. A. C. Smith, received
as an exchange from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
The Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Nacional, Medellin, sent
as an exchange or a gift, in four lots, 5,854 specimens collected in
Colombia by Dr. F. A. Barkley and his associates, identifications being
requested for most of them. ‘The National Szechwan University pre-
sented, through Dr. W. P. Fang, 2,157 Chinese plants in two lots.
E. P. Killip collected for the Museum 1,291 specimens in Argentina,
Chile, Colombia, Panama, and Florida. From the Arnold Arboretum
of Harvard University 411 specimens from Micronesia, collected by
C. Wong, were received as an exchange. The Allan Hancock Founda-
tion sent in exchange 480 specimens from Mexico and Central America,
collected by Dr. H. S. Gentry. Four lots, totaling 3,069 specimens,
were received from Virginius H. Chase, the material being collected
mainly in Illinois and accessioned as a gift or an exchange. Received
as an exchange in two lots from the University of Georgia were 766
specimens.

Phanerogams.—Among other collections of special value in this di-
vision were the following: The Division of Rubber Plant Investiga-
tions, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering,
transferred in four lots 865 specimens collected by Dr. Richard E.
Schultes, mainly in the interesting eastern part of Colombia adjacent
to the Rio Vaupés. There were purchased in three lots from the Chi-

1The number of specimens accessioned in the past 10 years is as follows: 1938-39,
50,409; 1939-40, 47,775; 1940-41, 37,225; 1941-42, 36,303; 1942-438, 34,298; 1943-44,
36,240 ; 1944-45, 30,442; 1945-46, 41,943; 1946-47, 43,695 ; 1947-48, 54,292.

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cago Natural History Museum 1,950 photographs of type specimens in
Kuropean herbaria, bringing the total number of that important series
of photographs in the National Herbarium to nearly 25,000. Mul-
ford B. Foster presented 218 specimens, mostly Bromeliaceae, col-
lected by him in South and Central America, for study by Associate
Curator Lyman B. Smith. Other important accessions, all received
as a gift or an exchange, in some instances with a request for identifica-
tions, were these: 599 specimens from Surinam and British Guiana,
collected by Dr. Bassett Maguire, distributed by the New York Botan-
ical Garden, the material including many isotypes and other rare
specimens ; 483 specimens from the islands of the Pacific, received from
the Bernice P. Bishop Museum; 489 specimens of Mexican plants col-
lected by Dr. H. E. Moore, received from the Gray Herbarium of Har-
vard University; 159 specimens from the Rio Vaupés region of
Colombia, collected by Paul H. Allen, sent by the Missouri Botanical
Garden ; 589 specimens from Central America, collected by Dr. L. O.
Williams and associates, received from the Escuela Agricola Pan-
americana, Tegucigalpa; 311 specimens collected in the vicinity of
Great Bear Lake, Canada, an exchange with the University of Michi-
gan; 227 specimens from the Bahama Islands, collected by Dr. R. A.
Howard and received from the New York Botanical Garden; 319
specimens of Colombian plants, collected mostly by Dr. J. Cuatrecasas,
and 247 specimens from Guatemala, collected by Paul C. Standley, both
lots received from the Chicago Natural History Museum; 220 speci-
mens of European plants, from the Naturhistorisches Museum,
Vienna; and 259 specimens from Japan, transferred by the Depart-
ment of the Army.

Grasses.—Many of the more important lots accessioned by the divi-
sion of grasses were received with a request for identifications.
Among such were: 3894 Mexican specimens, from the Oficina de
Estudios Especiales, Mexico City; 439 Argentine specimens from the
Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucuman; 119 specimens from French Indo-
China, received from the Institut des Recherches Agronomiques,
Saigon; 56 specimens from Mexico sent by the University of Cali-
fornia; 76 Peruvian specimens from Dr. César Vargas, Cuzco; 79 speci-
mens from Mexico and Guatemala, received from the University of
Tennessee; 148 specimens from Georgia, in 3 lots from the University
of Georgia; 86 specimens from Mexico, received in 2 lots from the
Allan Hancock Foundation. Other noteworthy accessions were: 105
specimens from Paraguay and India, received as a transfer from the
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering; 131
specimens from Peru, transferred in 4 lots by the Institute of Inter-
American Affairs; 760 specimens from Illinois, presented in 2 lots by

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Virginius H. Chase; and 104 specimens from Africa, received in ex-
changed from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Ferns.—The more noteworthy accessions in this division were the
following: 295 specimens from Micronesia, received from the Bernice
P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu: 216 specimens from Mexico and Guate-
mala, collected by Dr, A. J. Sharp, received from the University of
Tennessee; 116 specimens from San José Island, Panama, collected by
Dr. I. M. Johnston, from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard Univer-
sity; and 133 specimens from Honduras and Guatemala, collected
mostly by Dr. Louis O. Williams, received from the Escuela Agricola
Panamericana, Tegucigalpa. In the case of many of these, identifica-
tions were requested.

Oryptogams.—Several large collections of lower cryptogams were
received during the year, among which may be mentioned the follow-
ing: 602 lichens from various regions, a gift from Dr. Gunnar
Degelius, University of Uppsala; 268 aleae from Java and the Philip-
pine Islands, an exchange from the University of Michigan; 381
lichens from Panama, collected by Dr. P. F. Scholander, a gift from
the Arctic Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Department
of the Navy; 293 lichens from Greenland, in exchange with the Uni-
versitets Botaniske Museum, Oslo; 225 lichens from Alaska, a gift
from the Arctic Research Laboratory; 150 lichens from Panama,
presented by Dr. George A. Liano; and 110 miscellaneous specimens
from Alaska, a gift from Miss Margaret E. Bell.

Distribution and exchange of specimens.—In continuation of ex-
changes 27,806 specimens were sent out to 120 different institutions
and individuals, in 143 lots. This is a large increase over the preced-
ing year, when 4,403 specimens were so distributed, and exceeds by
nearly 10,000 the largest distribution made in any single year since the
outbreak of the war. These exchanges were divided among the divi-
sions thus: Phanerogams, 19,810 specimens; grasses, 4,118; ferns,
3,480; cryptogams, 398. There are relatively few duplicates on hand
in the divisions of phanerogams and ferns ready to be sent out. In
the division of grasses there are about 18,000 specimens of “Centuries
of American Grasses” to be distributed during the coming year. Dur-
ing 1948-49 the division of cryptogams concentrated on other forms
of curatorial work so that it was not possible to have a general dis-
tribution of duplicates.

The cosmopolitan nature of the exchange relations maintained by
the department may be seen by the geographical distribution of the
recipients outside the United States, which is as follows: Argentina
(6), Australia (5), Canada, Brazil, Colombia (4 each), Chile, England,
Sweden, Switzerland (3 each), Czechoslovakia, Italy, Netherlands (2

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each), and 1 each to Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras,
Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ger-
many, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the Soviet Union, S. S. R. Armenia,
South Africa, India, Java, and the Straits Settlements.

Number of specimens under the department.—An estimate of the
number of specimens in the divisions and the total in the department
is given in the following table. It is, of course, appreciated that in the
division of cryptogams a “specimen” may often refer to crude samples
consisting of a great many individuals. Duplicate material awaiting
distribution is not included in these figures:

TMC LOLA MIS a cae ere ed a a ele AO se Rye Mn cy 1, 529, 162
GATE SISS SSI i ST ET call le NO ae go SS YR NO er ee 318, 941
tee 0 Re, SiN Oe ie PER OMe ene eae) CTL ALi anes Coa arog 190, 039
Cryptogams:
PD AEORISL sient a cea ge eu ce! 46, 188
LO of 1) SIN ae TS wee LES ee gee Ue. eee, Mara 78, 946
Other-eryptogams 2252s eee ee 204, 859
329, 993
2, 368, 135

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

In all, 28,848 specimens of flowering plants and ferns were mounted,
wholly by adhesive straps and sewing, 24,200 of these by contract and
4,648 by the staff preparators. In addition, 3,233 photographs of
specimens (38,000 of them by contract) and 4,289 pockets of lower
cryptogams were pasted to sheets. This is an increase over the pre-
ceding year of about 4,500 items made ready for insertion in the
herbarium. About 6,700 specimens were repaired, mostly in con-
nection with the preparation of loans to be sent out. Of flowering
plants and ferns awaiting mounting there are about 16,500 speci-
mens. The estimated backlog of all unprocessed specimens in the
four divisions at the close of the year was 181,421, a reduction of
26,951 from the estimate of a year ago.

During the year 31,235 specimens of fiowering plants and ferns were
stamped and recorded, an increase of more than 5,000 over 1947-48.
They were divided as follows: Division of phanerogams, 21,600; divi-
sion of grasses, 8,053; division of ferns, 1,582. The cryptogamic col-
lections are not stamped and cataloged at present.

Specimens distributed into the herbarium totaled 37,853, an increase
of more than 11,000 over the number incorporated last year.

To the collection of types and isotypes maintained as a separate unit
by the department 457 specimens were added during the year, bringing
the total number of specimens in this herbarium to 48,206. They are

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divided among the divisions thus : Phanerogams, 35,619; grasses, 9,543 5
ferns, 2,979; cryptogams, 92.

The usual routine care was given the departmental library by Dr.
Walker. The bookcases were rearranged in order to provide office
space for the curator of phanerogams and his secretary. Dr. Walker
assisted Japanese and Chinese botanists to obtain publications in this
country and turned over to the Smithsonian Institution various pub-
lications received in exchange.

Phanerogams.—During the year 22,634 phanerogamic specimens
were incorporated in the herbarium, an increase of 8,009 over last
year. ‘The estimated backlog of 99,959 specimens on June 30, 1948,
was reduced by 14,992, due in large part to the extensive shipments of
duplicate material to other institutions in exchange.

The usual November and May fumigations of the entire herbarium
were made, and no damage from insects has been noted. All speci-
mens of the division, both new specimens and returned loans, are
poisoned upon receipt.

Delivery of 55 new herbarium cases was begun late in the year and
was completed at its veryend. Except for 11 that were assigned to the
division of cryptogams, they were placed on the balcony of the main
herbarium hall and on the third tier in the east end of the hall. A
start was made on the planned rearrangement of the phanerogam
herbarium by transferring the mosses to new cases in the cryptogam
herbarium; the general shift of the phanerogams could not be com-
menced until all the new cases were in place.

The fruit collection of the division, which had been stored in the
cryptogamic herbarium, was moved to a position on the third tier of
the main herbarium hall, where it occupies four cases and can be
readily consulted, except for the inconvenience that always attends the
use of third-tier cases. Miss Rudd has rearranged the fruit collection
and added 24 specimens during the year, bringing the total number
of fruit specimens to 999.

Grasses.—In the grass herbarium 6,229 specimens were filed during
the year, an increase of more than 2,000 over the figure for 1947-48.
No major changes were made in the arrangement of the collections.
Sufficient shifting of the material in the most crowded cases was done
to permit the insertion of the specimens incorporated this year. Early
next year several additional cases will be available, and the entire
herbarium will be shifted so that the specimens awaiting incorpora-
tion can be inserted.

To the Hitchcock and Chase library 128 publications were added,
consisting mostly of reprints of taxonomic articles on grasses. Per-
haps worthy of special mention is a book entitled “Minutes in Agri-
culture and Planting,” published in 1804, deposited by the daughter

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of the late S. H. McCrory. Actual specimens of agricultural grasses
in use at that time are included in the book. The number of entries
now cataloged in the library is 6,728. ‘The various indexes of grasses
have been kept up to date; 183 cards were added to the species index,
which now contains 77,183 cards.

Ferns.—The curator of ferns incorporated 2,968 specimens in the
herbarium during the year. No major changes have been made in
the organization of the collections during the year, but Mr. Morton has
continued with the work of rearranging them on a geographic rather
than an alphabetical basis.

Cryptogams.—During the year 4,289 pockets were mounted by
preparators or members of the staff. A large number of algae are
now ready for mounting. In the section of diatoms 40 specimens
were mounted on slides and inserted in the collection. Several thou-
sand specimens of rust fungi of the W. H. Long herbarium were
packeted and labeled by John A. Stevenson, and 382 specimens of
fungi were mounted and added to the general collection deposited at
present at the Plant Industry Station.

The general cryptogamic collections were extensively reorganized
during the year, about 6,000 specimens being incorporated by Dr.
Llano. The algae were transferred to the hallway outside the crypto-
gamic room and the 15 cases containing the general collections of
mosses, as well as two cases with cryptogams from the local area, were
shifted from the balcony of the main herbarium hall to the cryp-
togamicroom. Four cases of the mosses are now stored in corrugated
cardboard boxes instead of in standard herbarium cases. This pro-
cedure is safe as mosses are not subject to insect infestation and do not
need to be fumigated. The extensive accumulation of unprocessed
cryptogams was sorted in a preliminary manner by Dr. Llano, and
will be gone over, group by group, during the coming year. The bot-
tled collection was reorganized, new corks and additional preservative
being added as necessary.

No catalogs are maintained at present by the division. It is hoped
that the collections of bryophytes, lichens, and algae can sometime be
numbered serially and recorded. Catalogs can then be maintained
currently up to date.

In the section of diatoms the transfer of samples to a new type of
container was continued, allowing the collections to be stored and
handled more easily and making the refilling of the bottles with pre-
servative a simpler matter.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

In addition to carrying on routine studies of a large number of
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able to accomplish considerable original research, 16 papers being
submitted for publication during the year. Most of this work was,
of course, performed at the National Herbarium, but many of the
staff members found opportunity to conduct their studies at other
institutions. Mr. Killip and Dr. L. B. Smith examined material at
various herbaria in South America during and after the Botanical
Congress. Dr. Smith also studied at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard
University, the New York Botanical Garden, the Chicago Natural
History Museum, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. Dr. A. C.
Smith spent several days at the New York Botanical Garden. Mr.
Swallen consulted the grass collections at the University of Wisconsin,
University of Minnesota, and the Texas Research Foundation, and
Mr. Morton the fern collections at Harvard University and the New
York Botanical Garden. The Farlow Herbarium, Osborn Botanical
Laboratory, Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia, were visited by Dr. Llano in connection with
his study of lichens. Miss Rudd spent a short time at the North
Dakota Agricultural College.

Material sent for identification came in 389 lots and totaled 22,859
specimens, an increase of 9,855 specimens over the corresponding fig-
ure for the preceding year. About 11,700 identifications were re-
ported, some of them, however, relating to material received in
previous years. Among branches of the Government for which plants
were studied were the Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction,
Division of Rubber Investigations, Soil Conservation Service, National
Park Service, National Capital Parks, Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, Weather Bureau, Public Health Service, and the Institute of
Inter-American Affairs.

Phanerogams.—The curator of phanerogams, Dr. A. C. Smith,
completed studies of recent South American collections of the families
Myristicaceae, Hippocrateaceae, Ericaceae, and Vacciniaceae, sub-
mitting three papers on these groups for publication; two of these
will be included in Dr. Julian A. Steyermark’s report on his important
Venezuelan collections. Dr. Smith also initiated a study of collections
he made in Fiji in 1947 and has done at least preliminary work on
about one-third of the families. Two papers discussing aspects of
the Fijian work were published, and an article on plant nomenclature
was submitted for publication.

Mr. Leonard devoted most of his research time to the preparation
of an illustrated revision of the Acanthaceae of Columbia, the first
part of which was finished toward the close of the year.

Dr. Walker completed, in collaboration with Robert Rodin, an
article discussing additional phanerogams in the flora of Guam, thus
bringing to a conclusion his long-standing work with the wartime
servicemen’s collections. Progress was made by Dr. Walker on the

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following research projects: An illustrated treatment of the Myrsi-
naceae of Mount Omei, Szechwan; a supplementary study of the east-
ern Asiatic Myrsinaceae, continuing his earlier research in this field ;
further work on the manuscript of the supplement to the “Bibliog-
raphy of Eastern Asiatic Botany” by Merrill and Walker, the assist-
ance of a Japanese translator having been made possible by a grant
from the Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. L. B. Smith continued his work on accounts of the Bromeliaceae
of Colombia, Bolivia, and Brazil, and in connection with this family
he published during the year treatments of certain Bolivian and
Ecuadorian species. A paper containing descriptions of 34 new
species from various countries, chiefly from Colombia and collected
by Mulford B. Foster, was submitted for publication. Research in
the genus Begonia, in collaboration with Dr. Bernice G. Schubert, of
the Gray Herbarium, is being continued by Dr. Smith, who has also
nearly completed a fully illustrated account of this genus for the
Flora of Panama, now in course of publication.

Miss Rudd began a monographic study of the genus Aeschynomene.

The research work of the head curator, Mr. Killip, was confined to
a few families in connection with the proposed Flora of Colombia
and was carried out largely in collaboration with the visiting Colom-
bian botanists, J. M. Idrobo and Alvaro Fernandez.

Grasses.—Mr. Swallen completed a short paper on a new species of
Agrostis from California and continued work on the grass portion
of the Flora of Guatemala, now being published by the Chicago
Natural History Museum. Mrs. Agnes Chase, research associate,
spent much time rechecking the manuscript of the revised edition of
the “Manual of Grasses of the United States,” which now seems
assured of publication in the near future. Dr. F. A. McClure, re-
search associate, continued his studies of American bamboos and
completed several important papers.

Ferns.—During the year Mr. Morton prepared a treatment of the
Isoétaceae, Equisetaceae, Lycopodiaceae, and Ophioglossaceae for
publication in Dr. H. A. Gleason’s new “Illustrated Flora of the
Northeastern United States and Canada.” He also wrote a new
treatment of the ferns and fern allies for the second edition of Dr. T.
H. Kearney’s “Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona.” Study of
the ferns of tropical America was continued by Mr. Morton.

Cryptogams.—Mr. Conger kept on with his study of the diatoms
of Chesapeake Bay, and the preparation of a history of the diatom
deposits and diatomists of Richmond. He continued his study of
diatom movement in connection with a new theory he has developed.
He experimented also with a method for single-cell, open-water diatom
culture, and carried on studies on the ecology of diatoms on sub-
merged surfaces, primarily those of the larger aquatic plants.

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Dr. Llano completed a monograph of the lichen family Umbili-
cariaceae as represented in the Western Hemisphere. This work,
begun before his association with the National Museum, consists of
a taxonomic treatment of the species of North and South America, in-
cluding the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and contains also many
notes on species of the Old World. In connection with this work
more than 3,000 specimens from 90 herbaria distributed throughout
the world have been studied and annotated. He experimented with
methods of quickly making permanent sections of lichens by the use
of the freezing microtome, dyes, and plastic mounting media.

Mr. Leonard, of the division of phanerogams, continued his study
of the cryptogamic flora of the Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland.

Research by outside investigators——As usual, the collections of the
department were frequently consulted by staff members of the De-
partment of Agriculture, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Geologi-
cal Survey, and other Government agencies. An exceptionally large
number of out-of-town visitors to the department was recorded dur-
ing the year, due in part to the scientific meetings held in Washington
in September; 78 of these visitors carried on research studies in the
herbarium. Authors other than members of the staff published dur-
ing the year 66 papers based in part on material in the National
Herbarium.

There were informally lent the Department of Agriculture 484
specimens, in 21 lots, for study by its staff. To institutions and
individuals outside Washington 15,906 specimens in 125 lots were
lent, an increase of slightly more than 4,000 specimens but a consider-
able decrease in the number of transactions in comparison with 1947-
48. The material was represented among the four divisions thus:
Phanerogams, 10,394 specimens in 90 lots; grasses, 1,650 specimens in
4 lots; ferns, 919 specimens in 11 lots; cryptogams, 2,943 specimens in
20 lots.

In last year’s report mention was made of the efforts of the depart-
ment to obtain the return of material lent European and Chinese
institutions prior to the war by several botanical institutions of the
United States. The Department of State was instrumental in bring-
ing about the return of 1,403 fern specimens lent the Fan Memorial
Institute, Peiping, several years ago. For their return in good condi-
tion, credit is due Dr. H. H. Hu, director of the institute. Through
the cooperation of the Department of the Army all specimens that had
been lent by the National Museum to the Botanical Museum at Munich
were returned. Likewise through the efforts of the Army, 2,572
specimens, which had been lent museums at Berlin and Munich by
six other institutions in this country and by the National Museum,
Manila, were returned to the Smithsonian Institution and forwarded
to the lenders.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
(W. F. Fosuac, Head Curator)

Avpitions to the staff of the department of geology during 1949
and enhanced research facilities are chiefly responsible for a marked
increase in the value of new accessions and a broadening of the fields
of research. During the fiscal year Dr. David Nicol was appointed
associate curator in Tertiary paleontology, Miss LaVerna Pendle-
ton cataloger in the division of invertebrate paleontology, and Wil-
ham D. Crockett scientific illustrator in the division of vertebrate
paleontology. Dr. Ray S. Bassler retired as head curator of the
department on July 31, 1948, after 47 years of service with the Na-
tional Museum, and Dr. William F. Foshag was named to succeed
him. Dr. Foshag remains, however, acting curator of mineralogy.
Miss Mildred E. Joseph was appointed secretary to the head curator’s
office.

Two valued collaborators died during the year: Dr. Joseph A.
Cushman, collaborator in Foraminifera, on April 16, 1949, and Dr.
Whitman Cross, associate in petrology, on April 20, 1949. Under
the terms of his will, Dr. Cushman’s personal collection of Fora-
minifera, including numerous type specimens, will come to the
Institution.

The paleontological staff has, with the aid of funds from the Wal-
cott bequest, undertaken a wide variety of field work, which has re-
sulted in large and important increments to the Museum’s collec-
tions—new materials that will form the bases of new contributions
to geologic knowledge.

Four parties from the division of invertebrate paleontology were
in the field during the year. The first, consisting of Curator G. A.
Cooper and Associate Curator A. R. Loeblich, left Washington on
July 3, for El Paso, Tex., where they visited the Texas College of
Mines to select exchange specimens for the Museum collection. They
then proceeded to Silver City, N. Mex., to collect fossils from the
Percha formation of debatable Devonian or Mississippian age with
the objective of determining the true age relationships of the forma-
tion. Next they journeyed to the Glass Mountains north of Mara-
thon, Tex., to collect Permian sponges and other fossils, and thence
to Fort Worth, Tex., where they collected Pennsylvanian and Creta-
ceous fossils for several days. They finished with a few days col-
lecting in Oklahoma.

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From August 25 to September 4, Arthur L. Bowsher, geologist, and
William Allen, museum aide, collected Devonian, Mississippian, and
Pennsylvanian fossils in the Sacramento and San Andres Mountains,
N. Mex. They then went west to Hillsboro, N. Mex., to collect De-
vonian and Mississippian fossils occurring there in great variety and
abundance. On September 22 they moved to Silver City, N. Mex.,
to collect Devonian and Mississippian fossils similar to those of the
Hillsboro area and then made an excursion into southeastern Ari-
zona to study the geology and collect fossils from Mississippian strata.
They returned to New Mexico to complete their work in the Sacra-
mento Mountains.

A third expedition was made by Curator G. A. Cooper and Dr.
Alwyn Williams, visiting Commonwealth Fellow from the British
Isles, to examine the excellent Ordovician sequence exposed in the
southern Appalachians in Tennessee and Virginia. The party left
Washington on October 9 and visited fossil localities near Knoxville,
Tenn., Middlesboro, Ky., and several important points in Virginia.
The trip ended on October 23 after a study of stratigraphic sequences
about Harrisonburg and Strassburg, Va.

Late in September Associate Curator A. R. Loeblich, Jr., met Dr.
Ralph W. Imlay, of the U. S. Geological Survey, in Billings, Mont.,
and spent 12 days collecting foraminiferan samples from the Jurassic
in Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota.

Dr. C. Lewis Gazin, curator of vertebrate paleontology, began his
season’s collecting in the famous Pipestone Springs locality in south-
western Montana. Aided by Dr. J. LeRoy Kay and his assistant
from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, he cbtained an excellent
collection, about doubling the Museum’s representation of this Chad-
ronian or lower Oligocene mammalian microfauna. The party then
moved to the Lower Eocene Knight locality in the northern portion
of the Bridger Basin in west-central Wyoming. The geological hori-
zon represented there is the Lost Cabin equivalent of the Wasatchian
interval, lying immediately beneath the Green River formation. Par-
ticular success was achieved in obtaining articulated skeletal portions
with skulls of the rare condylarth Meniscotherium robustum and the
remains of a variety of other mammals of this age. During May Dr.
Gazin made two brief trips to a fissure deposit in western Virginia,
about 17 miles south of Franklin, W. Va. The fissure contained
abundant material of a variety of Pleistocene vertebrates, principally
mammalian, but with some representation of birds and reptiles.
Good jaws and complete bones of microfauna were observed, but
remains of larger forms, such as horse, bear, tapir, and peccary, were
broken up, indicating that the material had been washed in. A total
of 10 cartons of fossiliferous matrix was collected. Before the end

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of this year Dr. Gazin, accompanied by Franklin Pearce, aide, took
an expedition to the Paleocene exposures in the San Juan Basin of
New Mexico, and to the lower Eocene deposits in western Wyoming.

Prior to the end of the last fiscal year and continuing into the
present, the associate curator of vertebrate paleontology, Dr. D. H.
Dunkle, assisted by A. C. Murray of the division’s laboratory, con-
ducted an expedition to the marine Upper Cretaceous Pierre exposures
in eastern Wyoming and to an area of Green River Kocene deposits
in northeastern Utah. During a part of this time he was also assisted
by Dr. Bobb Schaeffer of the American Museum of Natural History,
who is collaborating with Dr. Dunkle in the study of Green River
fossil fishes. The results of this expedition included excellent col-
lections of Cretaceous fossil fishes and marine reptiles, an exhibition
slab of an ichthyodectid fish from the Pierre formation, and a highly
valuable stratigraphic series of fossil fishes from the Green River beds.
Dr. Dunkle also made several trips to various localities in Virginia
where Triassic rocks have been discovered to contain fossil fishes.
A locality near Haymarket produced excellent impressions of these
Upper Triassic fishes; from a second locality, near Warrenton, he ob-
tained actual fish remains, including those of the little-known
coelacanth genus Diplurus.

The new X-ray crystallographic laboratory was in constant opera-
tion throughout the year; more than 250 X-ray diffraction photo-
graphs, some of new minerals, were taken.

ACCESSIONS

The department as a whole received 275 accessions totaling 109,499
specimens during the year, in comparison with 281 accessions and
107,332 specimens in 1948. Of the total for 1949, mineralogy and
petrology received 108 accessions (827 specimens), invertebrate pale-
ontology and paleobotany 132 accessions (106,217 specimens), and
vertebrate paleontology 35 accessions (2,455 specimens).

Mineralogy and petrology.—The general mineral collections con-
tinue to grow through gifts and exchanges, with 57 accessions and
588 specimens for the year. Species new to the collections were re-
ceived as gifts from the following donors: Salesite (copper iodate)
from the Chile Exploration Co.; nigerite (oxide of zinc, tin, and
aluminum) from the Geological Survey of Nigeria; lombaardite
(silicate of calcium, iron, and aluminum) from Dr. Hans J. Nel;
shortite (carbonate of sodium and calcium) from the U. 8. Geological
Survey; and rashleighite (phosphate of copper, aluminum, and iron)
from Sir Arthur Russell.

The following additional new species were added to the general col-
lections through exchange: Lusakite (cobalt-bearing variety of

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staurolite), banalsite (silicate of aluminum and barium), pennantite
(maganese-rich chlorite), kalsilite (silicate of potassium and alumi-
num), braggite (sulphide of platinum, palladium, and nickel), cooper-
ite (sulphide of platinum) and earlandite (hydrated calcium citrate),
all from the British Museum; mercallite (potassium bisulphate) from
Prof. Guido Carobbi; parahilgardite (hydrous borate and chloride of
calcium) from Dr. C.S. Hurlbut, Jr.; barium-muscovite (oellacherite)
from Col. John J. Livingston; ishikawaite (tantalo-niobate of
uranium), and lembergite (hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum)
from Floyd A. Rapp.

Among the described materials received are the rare calcium silicate
afwillite from California, presented by Drs. Edgar H. Bailey and
A. O. Woodford; diopside from California, deposited by Dr. George
S. Switzer; and brannerite transferred by the U. 8. Geological Survey.

Many fine specimens were received as gifts during the past year.
The following are unusual: Pyromorphite, Broken Hill, Rhodesia,
from Dr. David Gallagher; chlorophoenicite, Franklin, New Jersey,
from John S. Albanese; a fine collection of rare copper sulphates in
large, exhibition-size specimens from Chuquicamata, Chile, from the
Chile Exploration Co.; creedite, Colquiri, Bolivia, from Dr. Robert
Herzenberg; germanite, Tsumeb, Southwest Africa, and simpsonite,
Brazil, from W. O. Vanderberg; and germanite from the Tsumeb
Corporation, Ltd.

Received in exchange were: A fine collection of 77 Japanese min-
erals from Floyd A. Rapp; ludlamite from Grafton, N. H., a new
American locality, from M. Z. Kissileff; hanksite, of a rare crystal
habit, from Modesto Leonardi; geocronite from Ralph KE. MacKay;
mimetite and other minerals from Cornwall, England, from John C.
Osmond; idocrase crystals from a new American locality, from Elmer
B. Rowley; and lazulite, andalusite, and augelite from Prof. C. D.
Woodhouse.

Transferred from the U. 8. Geological Survey were: A collection
of the rare beryllium mineral helvite from Iron Mountain, N. Mex.;
a large collection of trona, searlesite, and shortite from the saline
deposits of Green River, Wyo.; and tinticite from Tintic, Utah.

Special mention should again be made of the continuing efforts of
Floyd A. Rapp, of Tokyo, to obtain rare Japanese minerals for our
collections.

CANFIELD COLLECTION : Ninety-eight specimens through 23 accessions
were added to the Canfield collection. Species new to our collections
are: Stibiobismuthinite (sulphide of bismuth and antimony), arsen-
ioardennite (silicate of arsenic, aluminum, and manganese), and a
large number of specimens of portlandite (calcium hydroxide), For

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this latter accession we are indebted to the special efforts of Eduardo
Schmitter and Carl Fries, Jr. Outstanding among the remainder of
the specimens are a well-formed, gem-quality golden beryl crystal
from Brazil weighing over 1,800 grams, a group of unusual twinned
quartz crystals from Japan, a fine crystallized gold specimen from
Japan, an unusually large and fine zircon crystal from Australia, a
large zincite crystal from Franklin, N. J., and a large exhibition
specimen of borax crystals from California.

RoEBLInG coLtEctTion: Fifty-five specimens in six accessions were
added to the Roebling collection. Of particular value is a collection
of 40 unusually fine specimens of the rare secondary uranium minerals
from Katanga, Belgian Congo, including two species new to the col-
lection: saleeite and epiianthinite. Other unusual specimens are a
very large and well-formed columbite crystal from Brazil, a handsome
group of tourmaline and quartz crystals from Brazil, several fine,
large crystallized polybasite specimens from Mexico, and a fine speci-
men of covellite in very large crystals from Sardinia.

Germs: Twenty-nine gems were added to the gem collection in 18
accessions. ‘The outstanding new acquisition is a 42-carat stone of the
new gemstone brazilianite, the largest yet reported, from Brazil, pur-
chased through the Chamberlain Fund. Other additions to the
collection through this fund are two rare danburite gems weighing
7.85 and 3.75 carats from Japan, a 1.1-carat diamond, colored green
by irradiation in a cyclotron, a fine orange sapphire, or paparadsha,
weighing 15 carats from Ceylon, and a 22.5-carat stone of the new
synthetic gem “titania” (rutile) showing extraordinary fire and
brillance.

The following gems were received as gifts during the year: A strand
of opal beads, jade pin, jade pendant, and jade bracelet from
the estate of Ora Sperry; 11 cut stones and 2 boules of the new
synthetic gem rutile from the National Lead Co.; a synthetic star
sapphire and synthetic star ruby from the Linde Air Products Co.;
radium-treated topaz and sapphire from Nicola G. D’Ascenzo.

Merrorites: The most important specimen added to the meteorite
collection is the 8,750-gram individual of the Girgenti, Sicily, stony
meteorite, received as a gift from Dr. Stuart H. Perry. Dr. Perry
also presented a small specimen of the Smith Center, Kans., stone.
W. O. Vanderberg donated a specimen of the Hoba, South Africa,
iron, and Floyd A. Rapp gave a small fragment of the Tanokami
Mountain iron from Japan. <A specimen of the La Lande, N. Mex.,
meteorite was obtained through exchange with the University of
New Mexico, and examples of Tawallah Valley, Narellan, Elsinore,
and Moonbi meteorites were received in an exchange with the Aus-

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tralian Museum in Sydney, Australia. Twenty tektite specimens
from the Philippine Islands were received as a gift from Dr. A. Otley
Beyers.

Ores: Two accessions of 30 specimens were added to the ore col-
lection. A suite of 13 miscellaneous Indian ores were received in
exchange from the Geological Survey of India. Transferred from
the U. S. Geological Survey were 17 iron ores from various localities.

Rocxs: The following gifts of rocks were received during the
year: Anorthosite from Prof. T. C. Phemister; sand concretions from
Maj. EX. D. Taylor; and an unusual sandstone showing picturelike
markings and used as an ornamental stone from the Utah Scenic
Stone Corp.

Invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany.—Important gifts to
this division are: Approximately 500 specimens of gastropods and
goniatites from the lower Pennsylvanian and the uppermost Missis-
sippian strata of Arkansas from Roger C. Baker; 750 types and
supplementary specimens of Upper Cambrian trilobites from Montana
received from Dr. Christina Lochman Balk; 33 paratypes of Tertiary
mollusks from California from 8. S. Berry; 48 blocks of clay con-
taining Tertiary plants from Guatemala City from Dr. Barnum
Brown; 10,000 specimens of assorted invertebrate fossils from A. L.
Bowsher, now of the Museum staff; two lots of unusual echinoids
from the Lower Cretaceous beds of west Texas deposited by Dr, Earl
Ingerson; 7,500 specimens of Middle Ordovician fossils, mostly bryo-
zoans, from O. C. Cole; 20 Tertiary echinoids from Japan from Dr.
K. Hatai; 81 Triassic ammonites from Nevada presented by Francis
N. Johnston; a handsome specimen of the Cretaceous echinoid C7daris
hemigranosus from west Texas from Mrs. L. P. Jones; three type
specimens of Pennsylvanian goniatites from Dr. Ralph H. King;
261 type specimens of Foraminifera from the Lower Cretaceous ( Wal-
nut formation) of Texas from Mrs. Helen Tappan Loeblich; 50 type
specimens from the Ordovician rocks of Pennsylvania and Maryland
from Dr. Robert Neuman; 300 specimens of the Cretaceous brachiopod
Kingena from Dr. David Nicol of the Museum staff; 375 specimens
of Tertiary brachiopods from Cuba from the late Dr, R. H. Palmer;
2,150 Pennsylvanian invertebrate fossils from Robert Stark; five type
specimens of Foraminifera from Cretaceous and Eocene rocks of
Peru from Benton Stone; 300 specimens of Belgian Eocene fossils
from Dr. D. C. Rifflard; 85 specimens of Welsh brachiopods from Dr.
Alwyn Williams.

The following collections of invertebrate fossils were made possible
by purchase from Walcott funds or by support of collecting parties
by the fund: 40,000 specimens of invertebrate fossils from the

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Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian rocks in west Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona, collected by Associate Curator A. L. Bowsher
and Museum Aide William Allen; 25,000 specimens of Paleozoic fos-
sils from Texas and Oklahoma collected by Curator G. A. Cooper and
Associate Curator A. R. Loeblich; 2,500 Middle Ordovician fossils
collected by Dr. G. A. Cooper in Tennessee and Virginia; and 2,000
specimens of Permian and Jurassic ammonites and brachiopods from
Sicily obtained by purchase.

All but one of the 24 transfers were received from the Interior De-
partment (U. S. Geological Survey) ; the other transfer came from
the Bureau of American Ethnology, River Basin Surveys, through
R. B. Cumming, Jr. The most important transfers are: 3,400 speci-
mens including many types of Cretaceous (Woodbine) fossils from
Texas, described by Dr. L. W. Stephenson; 1,000 specimens (including
types) from Lower Ordovician strata of Texas collected and de-
scribed by Dr. Preston E. Cloud; about 382 type specimens of cono-
donts from the Mississippian (Barnett) formation of Texas collected
and described by Dr. W. H. Hass; 384 types and figured specimens of
Jurassic (Redwater) Foraminifera collected and described by
Dr. A. R. Loeblich, Jr., for the Geological Survey.

Of the exchanges the largest is that from the University of Bristol,
England, which brought 475 specimens of Paleozoic corals and brachi-
opods and Mesozoic brachiopods. The Museo de la Plata, Argentina,
exchanged 35 specimens of Triassic plants. From Dr. Friedrich
Trauth 80 ammonites and brachiopods from Triassic strata of Austria
were received. Dr. C.'T. Trechman sent a good set of 81 specimens of
Permian fossils from England, and Sgt. Philip Cambridge, sent a
fine collection of Mesozoic mollusks from Wales. ‘Twenty-one speci-
mens of Ordovician and Silurian graptolites were obtained from Mel-
bourne University, Australia, through Dr. Curt Teichert, and 145
specimens of fine Devonian and Mississippian fossils from New Mexico
were obtained from Dr. L. A. Nelson.

Vertebrate paleontology.—Undoubtedly the outstanding acquisition
of the year in this division was the nearly complete skeleton of the
Triassic phytosaur Machaeroprosopus gregorizt Camp, from the Chinle
formation near St. Johns, Ariz., collected and transferred to the Na-
tional Museum by the U. S. Geological Survey. Fragmentary phyto-
saur remains are not uncommon in the Triassic of the Southwest, but
exhibit-worthy skeletons do not number more than two or three in
the entire country.

Perhaps second in importance is the articulated skeletal portions
including skulls of three individuals of the condylarth Meniscotherium
robustum, a gift from the Walcott Fund and secured by the curator’s

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field party from the lower Eocene Knight beds of southwestern
Wyoming. These are particularly important in demonstrating the
foot structure and vertebral formula in this group of mammals.

Of much interest is the complete skeleton of the large ichthyodectid
fish, also from the Walcott Fund, which the associate curator’s party
obtained from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre formation of eastern
Wyoming. The associate curator, Dr. D. H. Dunkle, moreover,
brought to the National Museum a personal collection of four fishes
from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara formation of Kansas, most
notable of which is a skull of the rare Protosphyraena.

Outstanding gifts from private individuals include a partial, articu-
lated skeleton of one of the oldest known amphibians, from the Mis-
sissippian rocks of West Virginia, collected by Leigh R. Collins; three
specimens of the Devonian arthrodiran fish Hudinichthys terrilli, col-
lected by the late Peter A. Bungart and donated to the National
Museum by Mrs. Bungart; a partial, articulated skeleton of the Pleisto-
cene jaguar Panthera augusta, discovered in a Tennessee cave and
given to the Museum by Edward McCrady; the greater part of a skull
of the Pleistocene walrus Odobenus virginianus, dredged from about
20 fathoms off the coast of North Carolina and brought to the Museum
by C. W. Morris. <A particularly significant addition to the representa-
tion of the Miocene fauna from the Calvert formation in Maryland
is a portion of a tapir skull, possibly Mzotapirus, discovered by J. E.
Smedley, near Chesapeake Beach, the first skull portion, except for a
few isolated teeth, to have come from the middle Miocene of North
America.

Significant transfers from the U. S. Geological Survey, in addition
to the above-mentioned phytosaur, include a large and unusual repre-
sentation of the strange shark Helicoprion from the Permian Phos-
phoria beds of Idaho, secured for the Museum by Dr. James 8S. Wil-
liams, and a second specimen from the same beds in Utah, collected
by Dr. MarcusI. Goldman. Transfer was also made of a particularly
good representation of Hipparion and Nannippus materials from the
Bone Valley Pliocene beds of Florida, collected by F. Stearns MacNeil.

The Smithsonian River Basin Surveys transferred two important
collections, including representation of some new species from: (1)
the Wind River Eocene beds of the Boysen Reservoir area in Wyo-
ming, and (2) the Oligocene beds in the Canyon Ferry Reservoir area
near Helena, Montana. These were collected by Dr. T. E. White,
E. L. Lundelius, and J. C. Donohoe.

Distribution and exchange of specimens.—Materials distributed
for educational, scientific study, or other purposes consisted of 60
gifts totaling 1,404 specimens; 58 loans with 3,805 specimens; 56 ex-

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changes totaling 2,982 specimens; and 8 transfers of 626 specimens
to other Government agencies.

Number of specimens under the department.—The total number of
specimens now in the department’s collections is 3,157,247, distributed

as follows:

Ninerdlosy and petrology 2 2 ioe wee eee Ueto tee 259, 919
Invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany___---__-__- 2, 863, 412
Vertebrate paleontology___--__.-------__~-_-~----_--- 33, 916

CLG OEE) Late PsN pRB Mita Ey Wa ae Ni NR I le Pi 3, 157, 247

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

In order to convert the old “building stone hall” into office space,
it was necessary to dismantle and condense the exhibits relating to
nonmetalic minerals stored in the hall. Large specimens suitable
for exhibition have been reserved for display in the present exhibition
space in the ore hall, other materials have been incorporated in the
study series, while the remainder, consisting of duplicate material,
examples of brick, and similar inappropriate materials, are held for
condemnation procedure.

James H. Benn continued the catalog of mineral localities repre-
sented in the collections, while Miss Theresa Blumenthal maintained
the card index of new mineral names—a file very useful for acquiring
new species for the collections. Frank E. Holden has completed the
following preparations in the lapidary shop: 47 cut, polished, and
etched slices of meteorites; 178 cut and polished slabs of rocks and
ores; 159 thin sections of rocks and minerals for scientific examina-
tions; and 481 individual plaster bases for exhibition specimens of
minerals. Miss Jessie G. Beach, aide, has continued the hand print-
ing of exhibition labels. Her work on the sorting, numbering, and
otherwise preparing of large lots of Bryozoa and associated organisms
in the collection of washings and dredgings has continued.

Dr. David Nicol, associate curator, began a rearrangement of the
Tertiary invertebrate study collections according to geographic pro-
venience. In addition, 60 drawers of duplicate materials were cleaned
and arranged. William Allen, museum aide, undertook the difficult
task of organizing the cephalopod collections, with the types ar-
ranged alphabetically at the end of the regular series. He also assisted
the staff by preparing thin sections of fossils, sorting and picking col-
lections, and assisting in the time-consuming task of photographing
specimens. All members of the scientific staff of the division of in-
vertebrate paleontology and paleobotany spent a large percentage of
their time at identifying, labeling, and distributing choice specimens
in the biological collections. Dr. Cooper identified all the Percha

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shale material from New Mexico, amounting to many hundreds of
specimens, collected in 1948. Dr. Loeblich identified many hundreds
of Foraminifera and Bryozoa.

Cataloging.—In the division of mineralogy and petrology and the
division of vertebrate paleontology all specimens, except a small back-
log of current material, have been cataloged, numbered, and distrib-
uted. In the division of invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany,
because of the great number of individual specimens received, and the
huge backlog of accumulated material, much still remains to be
cataloged. With the appointment of Miss LaVerna Pendleton as
cataloger in this division, progress has been made in entering the most
urgent items. Besides a total of 3,240 entries recorded, Miss Pendle-
ton has marked as types and numbered about 15,000 specimens.

Exhibition.—The 14 cases containing the American systematic min-
eral collection have now been lined with a neutral-toned cloth, the old
black base blocks removed, and the number of specimens displayed
reduced by Mr. Benn. In order to eliminate the unsightly wire
supports for some of the specimens, Mr. Holden has prepared 481
individual plaster bases, colored to blend with the matrix of the speci-
mens. The result is a greatly improved display. A new exhibit
case showing a choice selection of uranium minerals from the Belgian
Congo was introduced as a special exhibit.

In vertebrate paleontology, laboratory work continued on the prep-
aration of the exhibit slab of Buettneria skulls and should be com-
pleted during the fall of the coming year. A complete skeleton of a
large ichthyodectid fish from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming is
being prepared in a manner suitable for exhibition; and a beginning
has been made in the preparation for exhibition of a nearly complete
phytosaur skeleton which the U. 8. Geological Survey collected from
the Chinle formation in Arizona.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

Mineralogy and petrology.—The curator, Dr. W. F. Foshag, con-
tinued his studies on the geochemistry of Paricutin Volcano. Unex-
pected changes in the chemical composition of the later lavas have
unusual significance relating to the nature of magma reservoirs. The
study of the fumarolic products indicates that several new mineral
species are present in the sublimates. E. P. Henderson, associate
curator, continued his investigations on the chemical composition of
the iron meteorites, and Dr. Stuart Perry, associate in mineralogy,
collaborated in this project by supplying the metallographic data.
Dr. George Switzer, associate curator, completed studies on the rare
and imperfectly known species veatchite (strontium borate), mosesite
(complex oxychloride-sulphate of mercury), and afwillite (hydrous

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calcium silicate). A study of the mineralogy of the Golconda, Brazil,
pegmatite is nearing completion. Much of his time was occupied in
preparing X-ray diffraction photographs of minerals, the completed
file to serve as a standard reference series for the study and determina-
tion of mineral species. Late in the year he left Washington on detail
to study the mineralogy and geochemistry of “The Geysers” in Cali-
fornia, an unusual occurrence of sulphate minerals and a potential
source of natural steam power. Dr. John P. Marble, associate in
mineralogy, completed the analyses of allanite from Massachusetts
and two uraninites from Brazil for the determination of their absolute
ages. In addition, he prepared a sample of pure pitchblende to serve
as a standard of thorium-free radioactive mineral. He continued his
annual comprehensive bibliography of naturally occurring radioactive
minerals and of geological time for the Committee on the Measure-
ment of Geological Time, of the National Research Council, of which
he is chairman.

Invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany.—Curator G. A. Cooper
finished the legends for the 248 plates to illustrate his monograph on
“Chazyan and related brachiopods.” ‘The completion of specific de-
scriptions remains to conclude this project. The Permian of the Glass
Mountain program is still in the accumulation-of-materials stage and
will remain so for another two or three years.

Because of lack of equipment, Dr. Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., was un-
able to make any substantial progress on his study of Upper Devonian
(Percha) Bryozoa, one of the specific projects of the research pro-
gram. He made substantial progress in other directions, however.
About 250 samples of Jurassic Foraminifera from Montana, Wyoming,
and South Dakota were washed and picked. <A paper entitled “North
American Jurassic Foraminifera, I: The Type Redwater Shale
(Oxfordian) of South Dakota” was prepared on some of this material
by Dr. Loeblich and Helen Tappan Loeblich. The second part of this
study, “Characteristic Callovian Foraminifera of the Western In-
terior,” is nearing completion under the same authorship. In addi-
tion, he is continuing his studies of Cretaceous Foraminifera by sorting
many samples and assembling faunal slides. The next year should
see the completion of this study. In addition to his work on Forami-
nifera, Dr. Loeblich prepared several hundred thin sections of upper
Paleozoic rhomboporoid bryozoans to be described in collaboration
with Dr. Helen Duncan. During the year Permian sponges continued
to accumulate for Dr. Loeblich’s part in the Permian research program.
Most of this material has now been assembled and roughly classified.

Associate Curator A. L. Bowsher continued his studies of the crinoid
family Actinocrinitidae. Most of the illustrations are prepared and
the first draft of the manuscript is ready. He also reports progress

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in his studies of the Mississippian stratigraphy and fossils of New
Mexico and surrounding country. All his collections made in the fall
field trip have been cleaned and organized.

Associate Curator David Nicol finished a study of the “Origin of
the Pelecypod Family Glycymeridae,” which is soon to be published.
He is now working on a monograph of the Recent species of the genus
Corbis, their distribution, and their relationship to those collected
around Bikini Atoll.

Research Associate J. Brookes Knight devoted his time to the study
of the Permian gastropods of Texas and New Mexico, concentrating
on those of Wolfcampian age. Even though still in its preliminary
stages, this study has proved its practical value in correlating Wolf-
campian beds in economically important areas as far apart as central
Texas and Arizona. The collections have been sorted and representa-
tive specimens photographed so that the preparation of manuscript,
commenced about a year ago on the basis of only the small part of the
collection then available, will be resumed at once. The revision of the
major taxonomic categories in the phylum Gastropoda, a project an-
nounced before, has been held in abeyance pending clarification of
some puzzling problems.

Upon retirement as head curator of geology on August 1, 1948, Dr.
Bassler continued research work under an appointment by the Secre-
tary as honorary associate in paleontology. With an office in the
Springer room, Dr. Bassler proceeded with his studies on this famous
echinoderm collection as in the past and practically completed a mono-
graph on Ordovician cystids. Later in the year, when the “Treatise
on Invertebrate Paleontology” was sponsored by the Geological So-
ciety of America and associated organizations, the preparation of the
volume on Bryozoa was assigned to Dr. Bassler, a study that will entail
a revision of the Museum’s entire bryozoan collection. Llustrations
and manuscript for several hundred genera have already been com-
pleted. |

Vertebrate paleontology.—Curator C. L. Gazin devoted his time
to the general study or monographing of the mammalian order Tillo-
dontia. The illustrations for this study are being prepared by the
division artist, W. D. Crockett, and are well on their way toward
completion. This is part of the curator’s general project of reviewing
the middle Kocene Bridger fauna. In addition to this, a short review
was made of the geologic history of the leptictid insectivores and a
new form belonging to this group was described from the Bridger
beds.

Associate Curator D. H. Dunkle continued his studies of the Green
River Eocene fishes from Wyoming and Utah in collaboration with
Dr. Bobb Schaeffer of the American Museum of Natural History.

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These two have also completed a joint study of a small collection of
Permian fishes from Brazil and of a new Triassic fish from Utah. Dr.
Dunkle has been preparing serial sections of a leptolepid fish from
the Jurassic of Cuba, in preparation for a detailed study of the skull
morphology of this group of fishes, and has given a part of his time
to collections of Triassic fishes secured from nearby localities in
Virginia.

Research by outside investigators.—Forty lots of minerals or mete-
orites were sent out to scientific investigators as aid to their researches.

Dr. Byron N. Cooper, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, completed
his monograph on Ordovician trilobites of the Southern Appalachians.
This work was started in the fall of 1945 when Dr. Cooper worked
at the Museum. Dr. T. W. Amsden, Johns Hopkins University, com-
pleted a study of Silurian (Henryhouse) brachiopods from Oklahoma,
collected by A. R. Loeblich, Jr.,and G. A. Cooper. Dr. Franco Rasetti
of the same university studied Upper Cambrian trilobites on several
occasions. In September 1948 Dr. Alwyn Williams, Commonwealth
Fellow from the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, and the University
of Cambridge, England, arrived to take up special studies on brachio-
pods. He has completed his study of the Stropheodontidae and is
now working on Middle Ordovician brachiopods. Ing. Alberto Arel-
lano, of the Instituto de Geologia, Mexico, spent two and one-half
months at the Museum completing his contribution to the “Geology
of the Region around Caborca.” ‘This study is to be published in
collaboration with Curator G. A. Cooper. Dr. T. K. Huang, chief
geologist of the Geological Survey of China, spent about three weeks
in Washington. While here he studied Ordovician and Permian
brachiopods at the Museum. Dr. Benton Stone, International Petro-
leum Co., Negritos, Peru, studied Foraminifera at the Museum. Dr.
T. Chien Yen has been studying fossil fresh-water Mollusca at the
Museum since December 1948 for the Office of Naval Research. He has
prepared. several papers on these collections. Dr. T. E. White, of the
Smithsonian River Basin Surveys, made extensive use of the collec-
tions of the division of vertebrate paleontology i in his study of the
lower Eocene vertebrate fossils collected in the Boysen Reservoir area
of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming, and of the Oligocene materials
from the Canyon Ferry Reservoir area in Montana. Dr. Jean R.
Hough, working on a grant from the Geological Society of America,
spent a good part of the year on her study of White River Oligocene
carnivores in the Museum collections and completed a review of the
saber-toothed genus Hoplophoneus.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIES
(Frank A. Taytor, Head Curator)

DEFINITE progress was made in the department of engineering and
industries during the fiscal year 1949 in all elements of the work.
Noteworthy accessions were made in all sections, improvement in the
condition of reference collections was accomplished in most, and the
organized effort applied to research began to produce results. Jacob
Kainen, curator of graphic arts, completed his study of George Clymer
and the Columbian printing press, and 8. H. Oliver, associate curator,
division of engineering, finished the manuscript for a descriptive
catalog of the automobile and motorcycle collection.

The departmental storage court was partially equipped with cases
and lockers which permitted the start of well-organized and accessible
reference storage of the fiber collection of the section of textiles and
the collections of instruments and electronic tubes of the section of
electricity.

Backlogs of cataloging were eliminated in the division of medicine
and public health, and a generic file was prepared in the section of
wood technology where family and common-name indexes also were
brought up to date, requiring a total of 13,628 newly typed cards.

In exhibition, the greatest improvement was made in the division of
crafts and industries, where the hall of early American textiles was
rigorously worked over, and three exhibits of old leatherworking
crafts, in shoplike arrangement, were created. Monthly exhibitions
of the work of contemporary fine printmakers and photographers and
the annual Photography-in-Science Competition (in cooperation with
the Scientific Monthly) were continued. The division of medicine
and public health presented the “Treatment” exhibit of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., and the division of engi-
neering showed the Robert H. Goddard rocket exhibit of the Daniel
and Florence Guggenheim Foundation.

Services rendered to inquirers including consultations, help in the
use of the collections, and identification of specimens were up in volume
to about one-fifth of the working hours of the professional staff.

ACCESSIONS

Accessions for the year total 128, or 15 less than last year. The
number of specimens is 2,610, which is greatly less than last year, be-

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cause of the abnormally large number acquired then in the Chaney
collection of railroad material. The break-down of the year’s acces-
sions is as follows: Crafts and industries 23 (314 specimens) ; engi-
neering 34 (232 specimens) ; graphic arts 62 (2,026 specimens) ; and
medicine and public health 9 (38 specimens). Of these the following
are noteworthy:

Crafis and industries.—The section of textiles acquired a unique
cotton patchwork quilt made entirely of 1876 Centennial fabrics, pre-
sented by Mrs. C. A. Rich, whose father collected the pieces while a
merchant in the dry-goods wholesale trade in New York. Many of the
fabrics represented had previously been thought to date much earlier.
From the French Gratitude Train, through the District of Columbia
French Gratitude Train Committee, 101 specimens were received, 96 of
them showing examples of Jacquard weaving.

The finest addition of the year in the section of wood technology
comprises 100 specimens and 9 photographs illustrating the produc-
tion and utilization of cork bark and its products, together with a
cherrywood case complete with lighting facilities. The exhibit was
arranged and presented by the Cork Institute of America.

Engineering.—The outstanding accession of the year in engineering
is the collection of electrical measuring instruments, early lamps, and
electronic tubes presented by the Weston Electrical Instrument Corp.
The instruments are a, part of those assembled for study by the Weston
Corporation from European and domestic sources beginning in the
1880’s. Another important accession, also in the section of electricity,
is the exhibit prepared for the National Museum by the U. S. Army
Signal Corps Laboratories on the subject of radar and microwave
radio relay communication.

Land transportation received a Columbia, high-wheel bicycle of
1887, restored and presented by Albert E. Schaaf. Mr. Schaaf, who
was associated with the early bicycle industry, has made several
accurate restorations of early bicycles with the purpose of preserving
a true record of their fine craftsmanship and finish.

The watercraft collection received a set of 19 blueprints of drawings
of Northwest coast fishing vessels designed by Harold Lee, late in the
1890’s and early in the 1900’s. These were received from Mr. Lee
through the efforts of William Garden, marine architect, who pre-
sented in addition seven blueprints and tracings of Pacific coast water-
craft from several sources.

Original rockets and rocket applications made by Dr. Robert H.
Goddard, whose early experimental work was supported in part by
the Smithsonian Institution, were accessioned temporarily as a loan
exhibit from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation.

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Graphic arts—During the year the division of graphic arts re-
ceived 62 accessions, of which 29 with a total of 540 specimens were in
eraphic arts and 33 with a total of 1,486 specimens in photography.

Among the noteworthy accessions were prints purchased through
the Dahlgreen Fund. These include a soft-ground etching, “Temoins
4 Audience,” by Jean Louis Forain, and a cellocut by Boris Margy
Serigraphs include “Auto-motif” by Anthony Velonis, who revived
serigraphy as a fine printmaking process; “Old New Harbor, Maine,”
by Frederick Detwiller ; and “Snowfall,” printed in 80 colors, by Jacob
Kainen, the latter two prints presented by the artists. The National
Serigraph Society presented an exhibit on the methods of serigraphy.
Mrs. Helen West Heller presented eight examples of her wood-
engraving.

Other contemporary artists represented by prints received during
the year are Joseph C. Claghorn (deceased), Prentiss Taylor, Rudi
Lesser, Ruel P. Tolman, and John Taylor Arms. Charles Dahlgreen
presented the important etchings “Self Portrait” and “Baigneuse” by
Anders Zorn and “Promenade du Dimanche” by Auguste Lepére.

In photography, the most interesting accession is the Marcy Sciopti-
con Magic Lantern, a kerosene lamp projector, patented 1868-69, pre-
sented by Frank B. Kaye. A Premo “A” stereoscopic camera was
presented by A. E. McMechan. The prize-winning print in the
monochrome division, First International Photography-in-Science
Competition, by Dr. Edwin R. Willis, was accessioned.

Medicine and public health.—In the division of medicine and public
health the principal accession is a group of electric hearing aids ar-
ranged in an exhibit prepared and presented by Telex, Inc., which il-
lustrates the development of hearing aids. The Rexall Drug Co. pre-
sented an example of the newly developed petechiometer for deter-
mining capillary fragility.

Distribution and exchange of specimens.—Sixteen specimens, not
resulting in deductions, were distributed by the division of crafts and
industries, as follows: 3 woods to Harvard University Biological Lab-
oratories; 6 specimens from manufacturers and 2 from textiles sent
to National Security Resources Board; 5 woods lent to Export-Import
Bank of Washington (returned). The division of engineering con-
tinued to lend sets of photographs to school teachers, and the total
number of photographs processed by the division for loans, gifts, trans-
fers, and pay orders was 846. One hundred and forty-eight prints of
the drawings produced by the Historic American Merchant Marine
Survey were ordered. These are supplied by a local blueprinter at
nominal cost to the purchaser from paper negatives lent by the divi-

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sion. The total of prints furnished to date is 5,650. A group of nine
patent models was lent to the United States Patent Office.

Number of specimens under the department.—At the end of the
year the total number of specimens in the department of engineering
and industries was as follows:

Graetsrangeind UStTICSs pe ee ee eee ee eee 60, 975
MeN Cerin gece nus 2 Ce A Sane eee a Sa Eee ee 82, 181
CCAD NIC? ALCS Foe Sees ee RE ed a eet 2 ee 49, 096
Medicine and: public: health ss er eee ee ee 22, 838

LA ZG 2 Ape NAA ERA oy Bs CL a eae Cale epee 165, 090

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

During the year an exchange of storage space between textiles and
agricultural industries was effected. All the sewing-machine patent
models were moved from room 110 on the south gallery, cleaned, and
placed in chronological order on steel shelves in the south-hall textile
storage. The 861 agricultural patent models were placed on shelves
in room 112, south tower. This exchange necessitated changes on
1,722 catalog cards, but it makes all the specimens more readily avail-
able to the staffs of the sections concerned. In manufactures, 179
storage units were cleaned and fumigated with DDT. Approximately
300 cubic feet of useless material was discarded. A large quantity of
specimens relating to the mineral industries was removed from the
southwest court and stored in the southwest basement.

The installation of 14 units of steel shelving in the storage court
permitted the start of an improved and permanent storage arrange-
ment for the section of electricity. This operation was delayed some-
what by the use of the space for sorting surplus material received from
the U. 8. Army Signal Corps, some of which will become a part of
the collections when accessioned next year. ‘The storing of all the
typewriters, except the few retained in the exhibits described in the
last report, was completed. These are now conveniently available for
study and are adequately protected. One of the basement storage
rooms of the northeast pavilion was cleared, cleaned, and refloored
with concrete. This is the last of these rooms requiring renovation.
When it is painted and equipped with storage equipment the entire
basement space will be useful and presentable.

About 65 mats were cut to preserve prints in graphic arts. An
acute shortage of matboard limited the activity in this connection.
The most valuable prints were added to the solander cases in which
the finest small prints are preserved. Many leather-covered specimens
in photography were treated to prevent deterioration, and a number

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of important prints were framed under glass. Two half-unit storage
cases were received and some of the largest and most important speci-
mens were placed there for proper storage.

The specimens in the division of medicine and public health were
examined carefully during the year and protective measures were taken
where needed. The collections are in a good state of preservation.
Four specimens in the medicinal forms exhibit and 26 specimens in
the Lederle biological collection, deteriorated by age, were replaced
by the donors.

Cataloging.—Most of the material received by the divisions during
the year was cataloged as received.

In the section of textiles, 181 specimens were cataloged, of which
16 were backlog. In manufactures 250 specimens were processed, all
backlog. In wood technology, current cataloging and work on the
backlog were both halted in order to prepare an increasingly necessary
generic file and to bring the family and common name indexes up
to date. For two of these sets, Mrs. Lottie A. Dickson, clerk-stenogra-
pher, typed 13,628 cards. Many of them bore common names which,
if unrepresented, required additional cards for the section’s glossary.

In the division of engineering, cataloging of new accessions was
kept up to date. The checking and authentication of the catalog rec-
ords of the automobiles and the electrical measuring instruments were
carried on by the associate curators in the course of their work on
descriptive catalogs of the collections. Much remains to be accom-
plished in checking and documenting the information contained in
the bulk of the old catalog records of the division.

In graphic arts, the cataloging of new specimens was accomplished
currently, the cataloging of the section library of photography was
completed, and the inventory of specimens in both sections was con-
tinued slowly. The reorganization of the photographic file of the
section of graphic arts was carried forward.

In medicine and public health, a 2-year backlog in cataloging of
new specimens was eliminated, and the section library catalog was
brought up to date.

Exhibition—Further consideration was given during the year to
a planned program for modernization of the exhibits of this
department.

In the section of manufactures, three leatherworking shops, de-
signed by Fred C. Reed, associate curator, were erected and installed
by the division preparators with the aid of the service shops. These
attractive exhibits representing a currier’s shop of 1884, a shoemaker’s
shop of 1850, and a harnessmaker’s shop of 1900, are practically com-
plete. Grace L. Rogers, assistant curator, section of textiles, made a

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complete rearrangement of the hall of early American textiles, involv-
ing the renovation of 23 cases and the elimination of 18. This re-
quired thoughtful consideration of the material and its disposition.

The associate curators of engineering directed the preparators in
the preparation of four single-case exhibits. They are on the subjects
of the Vanderbilt Cup Races, the Franklin automobile, and Edison
incandescent lamps. The preparators, William H. Dunn, Jr., and
J. Harry Phillips, Jr., and the skilled laborer, John C. Carter, erected
the special exhibit of the rocket developments of Dr. Robert H.
Goddard. This exhibit was shown with good results for three months.
The installation of a radar and radio relay exhibit prepared by the
U. S. Army Signal Corps Laboratories adds a bright, effective, and
instructive presentation of these modern subjects. It is the first unit
in the plan for enclosing the west south gallery within fixtures extend-
ing upward to a ceiling at girder height.

An exhibit devoted to the art and technique of serigraphy was in-
stalled in the section of graphic arts through the cooperation of the
National Serigraph Society. The section of photography installed an
exhibit of color photographs by the dye process and the Printon
process. The exhibition of the Second Annual Photography-in-
Science Competition, in cooperation with the Scientific Monthly, was
held in the foyer of the Natural History Building as was the First
All-Service Photography Competition cosponsored by the military
services. The demand for showings of the Photography-in-Science
Competition was so great that a second edition was printed and the
2 units are now on tour to 22 institutions in the United States and to
London and The Hague. The traditional monthly exhibits of con-
temporary work in graphic arts and photography were held as follows:

Graphic Arts
Junes2i—Aug.- Th | RPS Tolmans22) Ui vee 28 31 etchings and drypoints.
Aug. 2-Sept. 6... Artists’ Guild of Washington__ 45 prints and drawings.
Sept. 7-Oct. 3__.. Prentiss Taylor_....._______- 39 lithographs.
Ociv4—Oct. Sl--_ Boris\Margo eo 27 cellocuts.
Noval Nov. 28... Dox Thrashi 4.602222 0. 222 53 carbographs.
INGw.2o-Jans 2.2 Adja Yunkers. 22-222 kes 17 woodcuts.
Jan. 3—Jan: 302... Irving Amen. i 6 2/02 Sle) 32 woodcuts.
Jan. 31—-Feb. 27__ Leslie Cope__.__._________-__-- 44 etchings.
Beb.28—Mar..27..) , Minna) Citron. 2521 22-.s5.sc2 39 various prints.
Mar. 28—-Apr. 24__ Helen West Heller___________- 35 wood engravings.
Apr. 25—-May 22_. Minnie L. Raul____.____-__-- 59 drypoints.
May. 23—June 19-2 bynd Ward 2202 2222 eases 30 wood engravings.

June 19-Sept. 5.. Prints acquired through Dahl- 29 prints.
green Fund and prints by
Dahlgreen.

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Photography

70

July 1948_._.. Telephone Camera
Club of Manhattan.

Aug. 1948___ Metropolitan Camera
Club.

Sept. 1948_.__ Smithsonian Institu-
tion and the Scien-
tific Monthly.

Sept. 1948___ Mrs. Jean HElwell_-_-__-

Oct. 1948__.__ Charles Eliot Perkins__

Nov. 1948... Frank E. Fuller_____-

Dec. 1948___._ Dominic Chiesa _____-

Jan. 1949_._._ Ansco Division, Gen-
eral Aniline & Film
Corp.

Feb. 1949___. Natural History So-
ciety of Maryland.

Mar. 1949___ Departments of the
Army, the Navy,
and the Air Force.

Mar. 1949__. Harvey Belgin______-

Apr. 1949____ Herbert D. Ohm_____

May 1949___ The National Speleolo-

gical Society.

60 pictorial photographs (14th Bell Sys-
tem Traveling Salon).

89 pictorial photographs (12th Annual
Traveling Salon of Metropolitan Cam-
era Club Council).

282 scientific photographs (2d Interna-
tional Photography-in-Science Com-
petition).

60 pictorial photographs.

68 color photographs.

99 pictorial photographs.

40 pictorial photographs.

40 color photographs.

64 photographs (1st Maryland Salon of
Natural Science Photography).

480 pictorial photographs (ist All-
Service Photography Contest).

77 pictorial photographs.

60 pictorial photographs.

48 prints (2d Annual Salon of the
National Speleological Society).

An exhibit showing the development of hearing aids was prepared
and presented by Telex, Inc., at the request of the associate curator
of the division of medicine and public health. The “Treatment” ex-
hibit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., illus-
trating the treatment of poliomyelitis, was shown for about six weeks.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

Most of the available research time of W. N. Watkins, curator of
crafts and industries, was spent in assisting outside investigators to
trace and identify the numerous foreign hardwoods that have been
offered to the American trade since the war. A number of woods with
similar appearance and properties have been confused in the trade
with no intent to deceive, but some dealers have imported woods more
or less commonly known before the war, coined new names, and sold
them at advanced prices. The section’s goal is the same in either case—
to encourage accurate representation of woods for the protection of
the public. The examination and classifying of woods in the collection
is a continuing process and a number have been classified and several
reclassified this year.

Miss Grace L. Rogers, assistant curator of textiles, has undertaken
as a research project “The Care and Preservation of Textile Speci-
mens.” A preliminary study has been made to review the work done

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in this connection by other museums. Contacts have been made by
letters and personal visits. Twenty-five museums in the United States
and three abroad have been contacted to learn their methods of storing
and caring for their textiles. A bibliography of pertinent material is
being compiled. This study will be valuable to the Museum and others
seeking the best method of preservation of historic and valuable textile
fabrics.

In addition to the research incident to normal operations, Fred C.
Reed, associate curator of manufactures, began investigation in the
history of the farm tractor. So far, work has been limited to the years
1916 and 1917. Descriptions have been written of 173 different tractors
manufactured during this time by 129 manufacturers. The scope of
the project requires a photograph and description of every American
farm tractor with its history and development.

S. H. Oliver, associate curator of the division of engineering, com-
pleted the manuscript of one unit of the descriptive catalog of the
land transportation collections. This work describes the automobiles
with a brief history of each and includes a summary of the develop-
ment of the automobile. Mr. Oliver is continuing work on a similar
unit relating to the bicycles. Kenneth M. Perry, associate curator,
made progress in organizing the collections of electrical measuring
instruments preparatory to describing them.

The curator of graphic arts, Jacob Kainen, completed his study of
George Clymer and the Columbian hand press, invented in 1813. This
represents several years of library research and correspondence on an
interesting American invention which, because it was developed com-
mercially abroad, is not well known in the United States. The manu-
script has gone to the printer.

The associate curator of medicine and public health, George S.
Thomas, continued his library research on the subject of the history
of the microscopical identification of powdered drugs. This is pre-
paratory to his study of the merits of the several key systems employed
in the identification of drugs.

Many outside investigators examined and studied the collections,
and most of them were assisted by members of the staff in furthering
their work. Only a few can be mentioned.

Clarence Hornung sought aid in assembling material for a publica-
tion similar to Butterworth’s “History of Industrial Art.” He was
especially interested in the Slater spinning frame, cotton gin, and
sewing machines. Winslow L. Gooch, forestry consultant, studied the
literature and collections on durable woods suitable for piling and
decking. H. V. Bailey has repeatedly studied the wood collection
in connection with foreign woods being imported into this country.
Dr. W. W. Varossieau, wood anatomist, Delft, Netherlands, studied
woods and the card-index system and arranged for future exchanges.

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Woods for study were sent to Harvard University Biological Labo-
ratories, and Export-Import Bank of Washington. Textile fibers,
vegetable oils, crude rubber, and lac resins were sent to the National
Security Resources Board.

Norman Speiden, curator of the Edison Foundation, examined pho-
nographs in the collection in connection with the preparation of the
Foundation’s book on Edison and the phonograph. Admiral W. Mack
Angas, U. S. N., made several detailed examinations of the original
logbook of the 8. 8. Savannah, the first steam vessel to cross the At-
lantic, in connection with his continuing research in early steam navi-
gation. Dr. Charles Lyon Chandler, Ursinus College, obtained
answers to a number of inquiries relating to the history of invention
and used the engineering library to advantage. Commander George
M. Cunha, U.S. N., found the fine contemporary model of the Block
Island boat in the watercraft collection to be a real source of informa-
tion on details of the type in connection with a study which he has
undertaken with Paule Loring. Mrs. Jeannette Mirsky obtained ad-
vice on the significance and content of a group of original drawings of
tools attributed to Eli Whitney, which she had acquired in the course of
her study of Whitney’s life and work. Paul Warner, long-time editor
of publications of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, with two other
gentlemen from that firm, spent a day examining the Chaney collec-
tion of railroad historical material.

Dr. Lawrence Martin studied the Washington hand press in con-
siderable detail in order to obtain thorough information on the opera-
tion of this press. Dr. Martin is writing a historical novel in which
the central character is an itinerant printer. Raymond Evans, who
is preparing a volume on the golden era of American wood engraving
(1870-1890) , spent three days in the division of graphic arts examining
the large collection of wood engravings of the period. The National
Serigraph Society, which presented the division with the material for
a technical display of serigraphy, requested the division to prepare
copies of its labels for this exhibit, as well as the plan of arrangement,
to assist them in planning a similar display. Miss Marilyn Downes
and Miss Laureil Garlette, who are studying etching and other graphic
art processes, studied the engraver’s hand press and examined various
types of plates in the collection. Harold S. Sniffen, curator of the
Mariners Museum, visited the division to study its display of graphic-
art processes in connection with an exhibit he is preparing for his
museum. Mr. Sniffen borrowed 11 examples of plates, tools, and
prints to help round out his technical display.

Outside investigators who made use of the resources of the section
of photography included J. Monoghan, of the Tlinois State Historical
Society, and Edward Steichen, of the Museum of Modern Art.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

(CHarves Carey, Acting Head Curator)

Tue past year in the department of history has been a very active
one. On August 16, 1948, the division of history was elevated to a
full department consisting of five divisions: Civil history, military
history, naval history, numismatics, and philately. Miss Margaret
W. Brown was appointed acting curator of civil history, Mendel L.
Peterson acting curator of military and naval history, Stuart M.
Mosher acting curator of numismatics, Mrs. Catherine L. Manning
acting curator of philately, and Charles Carey acting head curator of
the department.

Other changes in the staff were as follows: Stuart M. Mosher was
appointed numismatist; James R. Sirlouis, former scientific aide, was
promoted to assistant curator; Miss Lucy H. Rowland, clerk-stenog-
rapher, was appointed to succeed Miss Rose M. Blazek, resigned; and
later Mrs. Margaret L. Henderson to succeed Miss Rowland, trans-
ferred to the division of archeology; and Craddock R. Goins, Jr., was
made scientific aide to succeed Wilbur H. Chapman, retired.

ACCESSIONS

Accessions for the year totaled 53 lots comprising 11,104 specimens.
Though this number is a decrease from the 79,337 specimens received
in 1947-48, which included the large collection of paper money and
postage stamps of the late Victor H. Huberich, it is an increase over
the 3,000 specimens averaged in the five years prior to 1948. The ac-
cessions were allocated to the several divisions as follows: Civil history
14 (61 specimens) ; military history 12 (490 specimens) ; naval history
4 (690 specimens) ; numismatics 14 (6,930 specimens) ; philately 9
(2,933 specimens).

Cwil history—The collection of American antiques and personal
relics was enriched by a spirit set and silverware presented by Mrs.
John EK. Reynolds that once belonged to Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820),
of Maryland, a prominent surveyor and mathematician. He was em-
ployed by the Government to survey and lay out the city of Washington
in 1790 and was made surveyor general of the United States in 1792.

Capt. George Van Deurs, U. S. N., presented a small wooden inkwell
that was used by Abraham Lincoln during his presidential adminis-

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tration. In 1874 the inkwell was presented by Elizabeth Keckley,
personal maid and seamstress for Mrs. Lincoln at the White House,
to her pastor, the Rev. George Van Deurs.

Part of a complex loan received from President Truman was as-
signed to the division of civil history. ‘The specimen is a marble slab
from the Temple of Wingless Victory on the Athens Acropolis, pre-
sented to Mr. Truman by a Greek delegation on March 28, 1949, as a
token of gratitude from the people of Greece for the support the people
of the United States have given their country. It was presented on the
occasion of the celebration in Greece of the Great Liberation Anniver-
sary. ‘The slab is engraved with an inscription in ancient style re-
ferring to President Truman’s friendship toward Greece.

The most interesting dresses received this year for the costumes
collection were a green plaid taffeta dress, period 1850-1860, from
Miss Mary E. McConnel; and some 1919, 1920, and 1924 dresses from
Mrs. John H. Murray. Mrs. Harry G. Meem presented two dresses of
the period 1925-1930. The twentieth-century dresses received are 1m-
portant because the Museum collection did not contain any specimens
of this period of costume.

In the collections of miscellaneous costumes noteworthy items are
a parasol made of pheasant feathers, presented by Mrs. H. T. Cocke,
and a bonnet of the type known as a “calash,” popular from 1770 to
the middle of the nineteenth century, received from Mrs. H. R. Hosea.

Military and naval history—The outstanding addition to the mili-
tary collection was a collection of relics of John J. Pershing bequeathed
to the Museum by General Pershing. It comprises the uniforms worn
by General Pershing from the time he was a cadet at the Military
Academy until the coronation of King George VI of England, as
well as presentation flags, medals, decorations, and other personal
mementos of his military service. In addition, an extensive collection
of artistic and commemorative medals was lent to the Museum by
Warren Pershing, General Pershing’s son.

The collection of military art was enriched by a group of 44 por-
traits of World War II heroes painted by Joseph Cummings Chase
and presented by him. This collection includes portraits of Gen.
George C. Marshall, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. Mark Clark, Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
and Gen. George S. Patton, to mention only a few. The portraits
are particularly interesting because the Museum already has in its
possession the collection of World War I heroes painted by the
same artist.

From the Department of the Navy was received a collection of 13
naval uniforms of World War II. The collection represents the

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WAVES, the Nurse Corps, and male officers and enlisted men. Also
from the Department of the Navy the division received a collection of
Sampson medals representing different ships of Sampson’s fleet. The
collection is virtually complete and is believed to be the only set of
these medals ever assembled.

Numismatics —The most important accession in this division was
the numismatic collection received as a gift from Paul A. Straub,
This contains 1,808 gold and 3,844 silver coins, mostly European issues
from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. It lacks hardly a rarity
of this period, and each coin is in the finest possible state of pre-
servation. The assemblage is remarkable in that it is not a “date”
collection but a type collection. As an example, it contains 51 gold
coins of Transylvania, a former principality in southeastern Hungary.
Dated from 1540 to 1777 these coins portray 27 different rulers. Mr.
Straub had a preference for large-size gold coins, and his gift con-
tains hundreds of pieces equivalent in size to a United States $20 gold
piece. The largest is a 50-ducat piece of Venice issued by the Doge
Paul Rainerio, 1779-1789. This is equal in weight to five United
States $20 gold pieces. The 3,844 silver coins are nearly all dollar
size, although, like the gold, many of them are multiples. The largest
is a 10-thaler issued by Henry Julius, of Brunswick-Wolfenbiittel,
1589-1613. Accompanying the collection is a 2-volume expertly pre-
pared catalog.

From the Department of the Army there was received a complete
collection, in duplicate, of Allied military currency. The 136 specimen
notes were especially printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
and were formally presented on April 7, by Gen. E. M. Foster.

Outstanding among the medals transferred by the Treasury De-
partment are two inaugural medals of Harry S. Truman and a bronze
galvano plaque of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Library of Congress transferred to the National Museum a
collection of 1,048 pieces of German “Notgeld” issued during the
inflationary period following World War I.

Philately—tIn the division of philately 2,890 specimens were re-
ceived from the Universal Postal Union and the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, through the Post Office Department. This is an in-
crease of 262 specimens over the number received from these sources
last year. While George J. Fosdyke, of Los Angeles, Calif., was on
vacation in Washington he examined stamps in the United States
collection and made notes on some of the missing specimens, Later
he sent 16 stamps to fill some of the vacancies. Two interesting and
historical covers from the Navy Antarctic Expedition in 1948 were do-
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and naval history. A sheet of 25 unused stamps of 60 centavos of the
1948 issue of Chile, with each stamp of a different design portraying
flora and fauna, was received as a gift from the Entomological Society
of Washington.

Number of specimens under the department.—At the close of the
fiscal year the total number of specimens under the care of the depart-
ment was as follows:

Civil dhistomy CHP seh kN Md GEN adie UAE IO Raa Raa 34, 994
Militaryihistony toi 2 8 Unis ie ROR A a eae 28, 484
Naval history siete telly Eh. fu Poke hts aap lod) ines ele My 4,198
UNUISIM A TICS ne eNO eB TN AID AU A 61, 105
PUT a Celiy eset LON Ny NEO RIE I UNS eigen ane 499, 584

Do ok 8 GAIA RSE RU PRP te WN ac A RS a 628, 365

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

The cleaning of the specimens of the division of civil history on
exhibition not only improved their appearance but also retarded de-
terioration. About 500 pieces of silverware were polished. Much of
it had not been cleaned since it became part of the Museum collection,
and the work took most of the time of one laborer for a period of three
months. There are still approximately 100 pieces on exhibition, some
few more in storage, to be cleaned. The china and glassware were
washed and cleaned with one of the new chemical cleaners, and the
furniture was dusted, wiped with a damp cloth, and then polished.
This project was undertaken with the part-time assistance of one
laborer and one assistant curator working with the acting curator. It
should be noted that the division of civil history has no laboratory in
which work of this kind can be performed.

The usual processes of dusting and the use of insecticides were con-
tinued in the costumes collection. ‘The inaugural dress worn by Mrs.
William McKinley, which is exhibited in the collection of dresses of
the First Ladies of the White House, was repaired under special con-
tract, and the skirt of the dress was backed with net to prevent further
deterioration.

The wing chair in the Lewis collection of household furniture from
Mount Vernon was also repaired, padded, and covered with muslin.
This chair has been in storage for many years because of its poor con-
dition, but it is now planned to have it upholstered and to display it
with the other relics of George Washington in our collections.

A considerable amount of work has been accomplished in the divi-
sion of military and naval history in an effort better to preserve the
exhibition specimens. Extensive cleaning and treatment with insecti-
cides should contribute to their protection. An effort has been made

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Lb

to increase the storage space in the divisions and to improve the fa-
cilities for storage of items in the reference collections. Storage units
have been rearranged to provide more floor space for the addition of
more units in the future, and many classes of specimens, particularly
swords and firearms, have been arranged in a manner that should make
them more accessible and offer better protection to them.

The usual routine of treating textile materials with insecticides was
carried on during the year.

Of the 106 diaphragms in the coin hall exhibit of the division of
numismatics, 99 have been cleaned and repainted. The faded gray
cloth has been removed from the diaphragms.

In accordance with the results of experiments conducted by Dr.
William Blum, of the National Bureau of Standards, 4,200 of the gold
and silver coins on exhibit have been cleaned and restored to their
natural color. A 5-percent solution of sodium cyanide was used to
remove the tarnish, the coins being then carefully washed and dried.

One hundred silver coins were cleaned and then given a thin coat of
lacquer. After having been on exhibit for six or more months they
show no signs of tarnishing. All other silver coins that have been
cleaned but not lacquered are beginning to acquire a tarnished surface.

Cataloging.—All specimens received during the year were cataloged
except for the 5,652 coins in the Paul A. Straub collection, which are
accompanied by complete data prepared by the collector and can be
easily cataloged when time permits.

Exhibition.—The efforts of all divisions have been directed toward
the cleaning and rearrangement of all exhibit collections and the
relining or painting of all cases in a light color in place of the gray
and maroon colors formerly used. This has resulted in a decided
improvement in the appearance of the halls and exhibits. This work
will be finished during the coming year.

Civil history.—The most important work accomplished by the di-
vision of civil history was a general housecleaning of the personal
mementos exhibited in the north hall and much of the china, silver,
glassware, and furniture exhibited in the west hall. The diaphragms
in all the cases were covered with monks-cloth and new labels made for
some of the cases. It has been possible to arrange a few of the ex-
hibits in a more logical manner. This work should be finished during
the next year. A new exhibition of furniture relating to historic
American personages has been arranged in the wall case on the north
hall in keeping with the general dedication of the hall to mementos of
prominent Americans. The exhibit starts with a pine chest that was
part of the household furniture used by General Washington at Mount
Vernon and contains furniture used by Benjamin Franklin, Alexander

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Hamilton, James Madison, Marquis de Lafayette, John Marshall,
Henry Clay, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gen.
John J. Pershing, and it ends with the desk and chair used by Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower at the Allied Military Headquarters in Italy
during World War II.

A special exhibit was arranged in the rotunda of the Natural His-
tory Building during the period of the inauguration of President
Harry 8S. Truman. The division of civil history furnished dresses
worn at the inaugural balls of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Ben-
jamin Harrison, and Theodore Roosevelt. The oil painting by J. L. G.
Ferris entitled “Washington’s Inauguration at Philadelphia 1793”
was also a part of this special exhibition.

Military and naval history—LExtensive work was done in rearrang-
ing exhibition specimens and in refinishing exhibition cases. In the
north hall, naval and military memorial exhibits were removed,
cleaned, and rearranged in chronological sequence. ‘The interiors of
the cases in the hall were completely refinished in a lighter color,
which contributes to the visibility and attractiveness of the displays.

The uniform collection occupying the west gallery was rearranged
into a chronological display depicting the development of the U. S.
Army uniform from the period of the Revolution to the post World
War II period, the development of the U. S. Navy uniform from
World War I to the present, and the uniform of women in the services
from the period of World War I to the present. The interiors of
the cases were refinished a lighter color, which increases the light
value and contributes to better visibility.

Collections of army and navy insignia from the period of the Span-
ish American War to the present have been installed in the rotunda.
The collection of swords that occupied this space was moved to the
arms court, where it more logically belongs. The wall cases in the
rotunda have been refinished in a lighter color and exhibitions of uni-
forms and military antiquities from the period of the Revolutionary
War to the present were installed. These exhibitions serve as an
introduction for the visitors to the type collections of divisions.

Numismatics—The entire numismatic exhibit has been arranged in
alphabetical and chronological order. New place cards have been
made for each coin and medal and each piece has been given a sepa-
rate label, clearly typed in black on gray.

A set of United States presidential inaugural medals was exhib-
ited in the rotunda of the Natural History Building in January.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

T. T. Belote, curator, devoted his time during the entire year to
the preparation of a report on “The History and Heraldry of the

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Flags of the United States.” Miss Margaret W. Brown, acting cura-
tor of civil history, made some progress with her study of “The
Dresses of the First Ladies of the White House.” Research on the
development of the United States Naval vessels and uniforms and
the United States Army small arms and uniforms was continued by
M. L. Peterson, acting curator of naval and military history. The
curator of numismatics, Stuart M. Mosher, made a careful study of
the books and ledgers kept by the curators of the Mint collection from
1838 to 1909. This study has yielded much useful information, es-
pecially in tracing the pedigrees of unusual specimens, and has re-
sulted in the publication of a number of short articles in The Numis-
matist.

ACCESSIONS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1948-49

(Except when otherwise indicated, the specimens were presented or were trans-
ferred, in accordance with law, by Bureaus of the Government)

Asgsott Funp, W. L., Smithsonian Insti-
tution: 209 skeletons of birds from
Liberia, collected by Harry A. Beatty
(180308) ; 2,815 bird skins, 38 birds’
eggs, mollusks, and reptiles from Co-
lombia, collected by M. A. Carriker,
Jr. (180673) ; 98 sets of birds’ eggs—
37 from Brazil, 6 from Venezuela, 42
from Florida, 11 from British Hon-
duras, and 2 from Pennsylvania
(181161); 900 bird skins, 24 bird
skeletons, 2 sets of eggs, and 4 mam-
mals from Panama, collected by Dr.
A. Wetmore and W. M. Perrygo, 1949
(183172).

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF
PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia, Pa.:
(Through Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry) 2
paratypes of land mollusks from Peru
(182084, exchange).

ADAMS, J. W., Washington, D. C.: 1
specimen of beryl from the California
molybdenite mine, southwest of
Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colo.
(181007).

AGENZIA CAMPANA, Riposto, Sicily,
Italy : 2 terra-cotta figurines (180848).

AGRICULTURE, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF,

Washington, D. C.

Bureau of Animal Industry, Belts-
ville, Md.: (Through Dr. A. O.
Foster) 3 pearl fishes from within
shells of live seallops taken by
C. B. Leary off Tortola Island,
Panama Bay, May 3, 1939 (182690).

Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine: 6 land and fresh-water
shells from Yukon Territory and
Algeria (179894) ; 4 land mollusks
from Guatemala (179997) ; 12 slugs
from Moscow, Idaho (180704) ; 10
land mollusks from Clifton, N. J.
(181017) ; 5 land shells from Alaska
(181128); 4 land mollusks from
Mexico and Ecuador (181393); 1
amphipod (181726); 1 mollusk
from Puerto Rico (182000) ; 2 plants
from Mexico (182824); (through
Harold A. Hauke) 50 insects repre-
senting 29 species (179967);
(through C. F. W. Muesebeck) 3
mollusks (179596) ; plant-infesting
crustaceans, 16 isopods (179747) ;

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10 amphipods and 1 land snail
(179771) ; approximately 21 phyl-
lopods (180638); 5 copepods
(180700) ; 9 marine invertebrates
(182464) ; 1 land shell from orchid
roots from Guatemala (182652) ; 4
fresh-water snails from Madagas-
ear (1827389) ; 538,000 miscellaneous
insects retained from collections
received in Division or Insect

Identification during the year
(188097).
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils,

and Agricultural Engineering: 60
grasses from India and Paraguay
(179783); 4 plants from Brazil
(179836) ; 21 grasses from Florida
(180411, 180414) ; 45 grasses from
India (180418); 11 grasses from
Colombia (181412); 389 plants
from Colombia (181624, 182029,
182030, 182993); 6 lichens from
Alaska (181649); 5 plants from
India (1818387); 7 grasses from
Puerto Rico (1821381); 6 lichens
from Colombia (182490) ; 35 lichens
(182514) ; 493 plants from Colom-
bia, collected by Dr. Richard HE.
Schultes (183090); (through Dr.
Richard BH. Schultes) 4 plants
(181557) ; (through John A. Stev-
enson) 1 lichen from Venezuela
(182159).

Office of Foreign Agricultural Rela-
tions: 1 plant from MHEHcuador
(179952) ; 1 plant from Guatemala
(182821).

Soil Conservation Service: 1 phanero-
gam (180777) ; 1 grass from Texas
(180898) ; 28 grasses from miscel-
laneous places (181092) ; 18 grasses
(181145).

Aauayo, Dr. A. G., Habana, Cuba: 15
paratypes of land and marine mol-
lusks and 2 lots, 3 paratypes, of fossil
marine mollusks from Cuba (180106,
exchange).

ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Au-
burn, Ala.: 2 plants (182491).

ALBANESE, JOHN S., Newark, N. J.: 1
chlorophoenicite from Franklin, N. J.
(181497).

ACCESSIONS

Acorn, J. R., Fallon, Nev.: 382 fishes
from British Columbia collected by
donor in July 1948 (180368).

AttarD, H. A., Arlington, Va.: 160
plants from Virginia (171964); 249
plants from Virginia and West Vir-
ginia (181389).

ALLARD, Howarp F., Arlington, Va.: 60
insects collected by donor at Ciudad
Trujillo, Dominican Republic
(179963).

ALLEN, Dr. A. A., Ithaca, N. Y.: 3 birds
and 1 set of 4 eggs of the bristle-
thighed curlew (183143).

ALLEN, J. E., Bristol, Tenn.: Calumet
and catlinite pipe bowl from the
Dakota Sioux (181219).

ALLEN, JAMES M., Cody, Wyo.: 18 spec-
imens of the fossil Problematicum
cruziana from Big Horn Mountains,
Wyo. (180535).

ALLEN, WILLIAM T., Washington, D. C.:
Bowl of a white clay pipe found near
Yorktown, Va., May 2, 1947 (182271).

ALLENTUCK, Davin I. (See under Alpha
Process Co.)

ALLIson, W. B., New Orleans, La.: 2
plants from Mississippi (179837).
ALPHA Process Co., Washington, D. C.:

(Through David I. Allentuck) 18
specimens of Modern Commercial Silk
Sereen Process Printing including 1
decalcomania; a set of 12 pictorial
illustrations made for the United
States Maritime Commission; 3 pic-
torial scenes of Washington; book
cover “Colorama” for specimen book
of Alpha Process Co.; and 1 adver-

tising card (182500).

AMEN, Irvine, New York, N. Y.: 32
woodcuts by Mr. Amen, lent for spe-
cial exhibition during January 1949
(181504, loan).

AMERICAN CYANAMIDE Co., Lederle Lab-
oratories Division, Philadelphia, Pa.:
21 biological products (183169).

AMERICAN EMBASSY, Paris, France.
(See under Mme. Marguerite Bernard
Passedouet. )

AMERICAN MUSEUM oF NATURAL His-
Tory, New York, N. Y.: Collection of
sherd types from excavations made
at Paohacamae and in the Chancay
Valley of the central Peruvian coast
(179829) ; 38 sea-stars from the Phil-
ippine Islands collected by Dr. W. G.
Van Name and G. R. Oesch (180242) ;
7 saturniid moths, representing 5
Species, all paratypes (180490);
(through John C. Armstrong) 11 sea-
urchins (180515) ; (through C. M. Bo-
gert) 1 frog, from Akyma, Demerara
River, British Guiana, collected by J.
Rodway in 1919 (181120, exchange) ;
(through Dr. C. H. Curran) 8 flies,

Sl

representing 5 species, all paratypes
(182721, exchange); (through Dr.
Otto Haas) 2 Cretaceous ammonites
from Wyoming (181503, exchange).

ANDERSON, P. K., Bogota, Colombia : Col-
lection (9 specimens) of current pa-
per money and coins from Colombia
(180319).

ANDHRA UNIVERSITY, Waltair,
India: 2 eryptogams (181833).

ANGELL, W. L. (See under Nome Pub-
lic Schools. )

ANONYMOUS: Model of a plow, found in
the Division of Ethnology with no
record (179841) ; decorated earthen-
ware tureen and earthenware nappy
(180559) ; 25 fishes from Venezuela
collected by Williams College Lyceum
of Natural History during explora-
tion in Venezuela, probably about
1860 (181005); 2 polychrome weay-
ings, a carrying bag, and a cap from
the Indians of the Province of Las
Mufiecas, Bolivia (181508).

Ansco, Binghamton, N. Y.: (Through
Kenneth §S. Johnson) 40 Printon color
prints lent for January 1949 exhibit
(181447, loan); (through William J.
Nagel) 6 Printon color photographs
(180163) ; four 8 by 10 Ansco color-
film transparencies and 1 illuminated
display unit (181446).

APOLINAR-MaAriA, Rev. Brother, Bogota,
Colombia: 40 plants from Colombia
(181481, 182237, 182238, 183085).

ARABIAN AMERICAN Ort Co., San Fran-
cisco, Calif. (in cooperation with
Smithsonian Institution, National Mu-
seum) : 5,000 fishes, mollusks, marine
invertebrates, echinoderms, insects,
algae, birds, reptiles, and amphibians
from region of Persian Gulf and Red
Sea, collected by Donald S. Erdman
(178732, collected for Museum).

ARELLANO, Ing. A. R. V., Mexico, D. F.:
75 land mollusks from Mexico
(182081) ; approximately 1,000 land
and fresh-water mollusks (Pleisto-
cene?) from marl near Aguascali-
entes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
(183100).

ARIZONA, UNIVERSITY OF, Tucson, Ariz.:
4 grasses from Arizona (181535).

ARMSTRONG, JOHN C. (See under Amer-
ican Museum of Natural History.)

South

ARNETT, Dr. Ross H., Washington,
D. C.; 6 beetles, including types
(183012).

ARNHEM LAND EXPEDITION (under aus-
pices of Commonwealth of Australia,
National Geographic Society, and
Smithsonian Institution) : Anthropo-
logical and natural-history specimens
from Arnhem Land, Northern Terri-
tory, Australia, collected during 1948

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by H. G. Deignan, Dr. D. H. Johnson,
Dr. R. R. Miller, and F. M. Setzler
(178294, collected for the Museum).

ARNOLD, Dr. Grorar. (See under Na-
tional Museum of Southern Rhcde-
sia.)

ARNOLD, Mrs. J. M., Hast Orange, N. J.:
A Washington Centennial print of
1876 (179768).

ARTISTS’ GUILD OF WASHINGTON, Wash-
ington, D. C.: (Through Leo Steppat)
45 prints and drawings by members
of the Artists’ Guild of Washington

for special exhibition, August 2
through September 6, 1948 (180023,
loan).

ARTZ, LENA, Waterlick, Va.: 1 phanero-
gam from Virginia (181494).

ASCHEMEIER, CHARLES R., Washington,
D. C.: 1 shrew collected 2 miles north
of Annapolis, Md. (180787); 4 fox
skulls collected in Orlean and War-
renton, Va., September and October
1948, and 1 raccoon skull from Prince
Georges County, Md., October 1948
(181013) ; 1 fox skull from Middle-
burg Va., and 1 bear and 1 deer
skull collected in Bath County, Va.
(181286) ; 1 bear skull from Manns
Harbor, N. C., and 1 red fox skull
from Montgomery County, Md., both
collected in December 1948 (181379) ;
1 skeleton of gray fox from Hagers-
town, Md. (181453) ; skull of a red fox
from near Rockville, Md. (181509) ; 2
foxes (183187). (See also under
Gordon Leech.)

Aston, Capt. M. J. (See under Nation-
al Military Wstablishment, Depart-
ment of the Navy, National Naval
Medical Center.)

AUSTRALIA, COMMONWEALTH OF.
under Arnhem Land Expedition.)

AUSTRALIAN MusEuM, Sydney, New
South Wales: (Through Dr. A. B.
Walkom) 4 Australian meteorites—
Moonbi, 74 grams; Tawallah Valley,

(See

168 grams; Narellan, 33.7 grams;
Hisinora, 86 grams (188020, ex-
change).

Barr, Francis M., Washington, D. C.:
2 fossil fishes from Prince William
County, Va. (180906).

BaILey, ALFRED M., Denver, Colo.: 1 set
of wing bones (humerus, radius, ul-
na) of a green-throated loon (180041).

BaILey, Dr. Enaar H., Los Gatos, Calif.,
and Prof. A. O. Wooprorp, Claremont,
Calif.: 2 specimens of afwillite from
Crestmore, Calif. (182726).

BAILEY, FLORENCE Merriam. (See un-
der Smithsonian Institution, Bureau
of American Ethnology.)

BAILEY, Dr. REEVE M. (See under Uni-
versity of Michigan.)

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

BAILEY, HortroriruM, Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y.: 13 Mexican lichens
(180978, exchange); 5 plants from
Mexico (181873) ; 3 grasses from Mex-
ico (182324).

Baker, Dr. Roarr C., Fayetteville,
Ark.: 1 specimen of problematical
cephalopod from the Mississippian
rocks of Arkansas (182498) ; approxi-
mately 500 Mississippian mollusks
from northwestern Arkansas and 3
crinoid slabs from the Devonian De!l-
aware limestone of Ohio (182697).

BALDWIN, Dr. J. T., Jr., Williamsburg,
Va.: 11 lots of marine and land mol-
lusks and 1 jar of frogs from Monro-
via, Liberia (180086); 15 lichens
from Liberia (181107); 2 chorus
frogs from Five Forks, James City
County, Va., collected February 13,
1949, by donor (181871); 1 leech
(182515).

BALK, Dr. CHRISTINA LOCHMAN, Chica-
go, Ill.: Approximately 750 Upper
Cambrian trilobites and other fossils
from Montana, including type speci-
mens illustrated in papers by Dr.
Donald Duncan and donor (180482) ;
1 Pennsylvanian brachiopod from 14
mile north of Copper, Colo. (181501).

Banks, Mrs. MInya DE M., Hustis, Fla.:
Hindu sari of woven silk (180923).

BANNISTER, F. A. (See under British
Government, British Museum (Nat-
ural History).)

BAPTISTE, WILLIAM J., Fellsmere, Fla.:
2 flies from Cuba (180182).

BARNEBY, RUPERT C., Wappingers Falls,
N. Y.: 2 isotypes of plants (180736).

BaRNES, VENTURA, Jr., Mayagtiez, Puer-
to Rico: 1 motmot from Venezuela
(180268).

BARNES, WILLIAM, Sydney, New South
Wales: 3 birds-of-paradise (181827).
BARR, WILLIAM F., Moscow, Idaho: 1
beetle from Verma, Calif. (181934) ;

2 beetles (182944).

Barton, Otis, Boston, Mass.: (Through
Dr. Samuel F. Hildebrand) 16 fishes
from Talara, Peru (181063).

BartscH, Dr. Paut, Washington, D. C.:
1 chipping sparrow (179951) ; approx-
imately 45 mollusks from West Vir-
ginia (180774) ; 2 bobwhites (182879,
183023).

Basser, Dr. Ray 8S. (See under E. H.
Sarles and Dr. BE. Voigt.)

BAXTER, WILLIAM T., Bethesda, Md.: 2
specimens of nephrite jade (one cut
and one uncut) from 40 miles west
of Saratoga, Carbon County, Wyo.
(181238).

BAYER, FREDERICK M., Washington,
D. C.: 2 parasitic copepods taken from
fish specimen collected at Biak Island,

ACCESSIONS

New Guinea (179808); 12 cowries
from Biak Island (182837). (See also
under Frank Lyman, University of
Miami, and Mr. and Mrs. John Went-
worth.)

BEAMER, Dr. R. H.
sity of Kansas.)

Beatty, Harry A., Bronx, N. Y.: 51 ma-
rine invertebrates and 1 mollusk
(180277).

Becx, Prof. Cart W. (See under Uni-
versity of New Mexico.)

BELGIN, Harvey, San Antonio, Tex.:
(Through Mrs. Harvey Belgin) 77
Pictorial photographs of Japan, the
Philippines, and Okinawa for special
exhibition during March 1949 (182032,
loan).

Bru, MARGARET E., Loring, Alaska: 110
plants from Alaska (181653).

BELL, Dr. W. C., Minneapolis, Minn.: 3
pieces of Cambrian quartzite contain-
ing impressions of snails (181171).

BEnestToN, Mrs. GrorGe, Waterloo, Iowa:
5 land and fresh-water mollusks from
Iowa (180246).

Benton, Mrs. EpItH KEYES (deceased) :
(Through Walter C. English.) The
Don Diego Columbus table condition-
ally bequeathed to the National Mu-
seum by Mrs. Benton (1800388, de-
posit).

Berry, Mrs. Harotp, Washington, D. C.:
(Through Mrs. James HE. Coats.) A
16th century tobacco box of brass and
copper, an earthenware bowl from
Guadalajara, Mexico, and a spoon
from Chiriqui, Panama (180492).

BERRY, Dr. S. STILMAN, Redlands,
Calif.: 105 land and marine shells
from Arizona, California, and Mexico
and 33 paratypes of mollusks from
Tertiary of California (180144) ; 22
land shells from Montana (180561).

BERTRAM, RicHarp H., Miami, Fla.: 1
mollusk from Biscayne Bay, Miami
Beach, Fla. (179977).

BETHEA, Rev. JAMES B., St. Simons Is-
land, Ga.: 5 marine mollusks from
Georgia and the Philippine Islands
(182897).

Bryers, Dr. H. Otrry, Manila, P. I.: 20
tektites from the Philippine Islands,
10 from Santa Mesa. Rizal Province,
and 10 from Pugad Babuy, Bulacin
Province (183158).

BIEsE, Dr. WALTER, Santiago, Chile: 25
lots, of which 16 are paratypes and
topotypes, approximately 300 speci-
mens, of a fresh-water mollusk from
Chile (181455, exchange).

Bices, Rev. H. EH. J., Bromley, Kent,
England: 15 beetles, representing 15
Species, from Persia (181765, ex-
change).

(See under Univer-

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BisHor Museum, Bernice P., Honolulu,
T. H.: 198 ferns from the South Pa-
cific (182700, exchange) ; 645 plants
from the Pacific Islands (182998, ex-
change) ; (through Dr. C. H. Edmond-
son) 7 crabs (178855) ; 50 amphipods
from Tsingtao, China (179816) ;
(through E. C. Zimmerman) 10 Hy-
menoptera, representing 6 species of
5 genera, including 1 paratype
(181568).

BIssELL, H. S., Las Cruces, N. Mex.: 2
inscribed wooden tablets from Haster
Island, South Pacific (180536).

Birron, E. QuintToN, Norfolk, England:
10 sets, 21 specimens of birds’ eggs
(180584, exchange).

BLack, RALEIGH A., Mont Albert, Vic-
toria: 89 grasses from Australia
(180340, exchange).

Buarr, Louise F., Hyattsville, Md.: 6
chased and embossed lidded silver
vessels collected in Siam, an ancient
bronze revolving key, a terra-cotta oil
jug from ancient Greece, and an an-
cient Etruscan bronze mirror (182-
391).

BLANDY EXPERIMENTAL Farm, Boyce,
Va.: 205 plants (182487, exchange).
BLoK, Dr. ArtHurR, Rottingdean, Sus-
sex, Hngland: 10 mollusks from Eng-

land (179979).

Bogert, C. M. (See under American
Museum of Natural History.)

BoHArt, Dr. RicHAarp M., Davis, Calif. :
3 flies collected by donor near Davis
(179865). (See also under Univer-
sity of California.)

Bomar, Mrs. Epwarp HE.
Bertha Chinn. )

BoNnHAM, Dr. KELSHAW. (See under
University of Washington, Applied
Fisheries Laboratory.)

(See under FE.

Boonk, J. D. (See under Mrs. L. P.
Jones. )

BorGMEIgER, Dr. THomaz, Rio de Janei-
ro, Brazil: 91 ants (181242, ex-
change)

BOTERO-RESTREPO, GILBERTO. (See un-
der Colombian Geological Survey.)
Botts, Victor V., Paso Robles, Calif.:
15 chalcedony biconids from near

Paso Robles (181728).

Bower, W. J., St. Petersburg, Fla.: 8
specimens of a marine mollusk from
Shell Isle, Fla. (181937).

BowsHeER, ARTHUR L., Washington,
D. C.: 25 fresh-water shells from
Yunnan, China (180143); 10,000 Pa-
leozoie invertebrate fossils from
North America and Asia (181282) ; 1
specimen of vermiculite from Gunni-
son-Lake City Road, near Powder-
horn, Colo., 1 lot of aragonite crys-
tals from 20 miles north-northwest of

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Amarillo on north side of Canadian

River, Moore County, Tex., and 1 sam-

ple of gypsum sand, White Sands Na-

tional Monument, Alamogordo, N.

Mex. (181755). (See also under

Phil Kaiser and Dr. R. L. Laudon.)

Box, Harotp E., Maracay, Estado Ara-
gua, Venezuela: 14 reared flies from
Venezuela (181702).

Boyp, Crecit, and J. J. Boyp, Hillsboro,
N. Mex.: 2 pieces of limestone con-
taining 100 snails and clams from
lower Pennsylvanian rocks west of
Cecil’s Ranch House, Sierra County,
N. Mex. (1813843).

BRAMLETTE, W. A., Denver, Colo.: 1 cri-
noid, holotype, from Permian rocks of
Texas (180102).

Bray, Rospert §., Washington, D. C.:
Approximately 11,000 crustaceans
(180642).

BRENCELE, Dr. J. F., Mellette, S. Dak.:
96 plants (182694, part exchange).
Bripa@k, Dr. JostanH, Washington, D. C.

(See under U. S. Department of the

Interior, Geological Survey.)

BRIDWELL, J. C., Lignum, Va.: 12 mol-
lusks from Lignum (182836) ; collec-
tion of mollusks and amphibians from
Virginia (183173).

BrigHaAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Provo,
Utah: 36 plants (181597) ; 17 grasses
from Utah (181788).

BRISTOL, UNIVERSITY oF, Bristol, Eng-
land: (Through Dr. W. F. Whittard)
364 Paleozoic and Mesosoic brachio-
pods and 111 Paleozoic corals from
England (180481, exchange).

BRITISH GOVERNMENT:

Department of Agriculture, Kingston,
Jamaica: (Through W. H. Ed-
wards) Approximately 10 speci-
mens of aphids from Jamaica
(179897).

British Museum (Natural History),
London, England: 9 Hymenoptera,
representing 8 species and includ-
ing 3 paratypes (181746, ex-
change); (through F. A. Bannis-
ter) 5 minerals: staurolite from
Northern Rhodesia, banalsite and
pennantite from Caernarvonshire,
England, kalsilite from Uganda,
braggite and cooperite from Trans-
vaal, and earlandite from Weddell
Sea (181135, exchange); (through
Dr. H. Dighton Thomas) 1 Jurassic
sponge and a piece of the holotype
of a Cretaceous coral from England
(181558) ; (through W. E. China) 2
bugs (181581, exchange) ; (through
Dr. W. J. Rees) 5 paratypes of land
mollusks from Africa, representing
forms new to the National Muse-
um’s_ collection (181812, _ ex-
change); (through Dr. Howard HB.

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Hinton) 3 beetles (182889, ex-
change).

Commonwealth Institute of Entomol-
ogy, London, England: (Through
Dr. Maurice T. James) 2 paratypes
of flies deposited by Dr. M. T.
James at the suggestion of Dr. F.
van Emden (179960) ; (through Dr.
F. van Emden) 2 flies from Africa
(182892).

Brock, VERNON. (See under Hawaii
Board of Agriculture and Forestry.)

Bromtry, Dr. S. W., Stamford, Conn.:
78 flies including 8 paratypes (180036,
180281, 181012) ; 148 specimens, 22
species, of wasps, and 20 flies repre-
senting 5 species (181449); 175 in-
sects, consisting of 338 specimens, 18
species of North American wasps, 110
bees and 382 flies from India (181562).

Brookines, Mrs. WALTER Dvu_ Bois,
Alexandria, Va.: Lace pillow, 30
inches of lace edging, bobbins, and 2
tape patterns used by donor’s great-
grandmother, Mrs. BHlizabeth Lord
Lakeman, between 1767 and 1862, and
a square of block-printed linen cloth
(180233).

Brown, Dr. Barnum, New York, N. Y.:
(Through Dr. Roland W. Brown) 48
blocks of clay containing plant fos-
sils from near Pelancia, Guatemala
(180403).

Brown, Dr. D. A., London, England:
68 specimens, 30 species, of Tertiary
and Recent Bryozoa from New Zea-
land (180197).

Brown, F. Martin, Colorado Springs,
Colo.: 6 butterflies, representing 6
species new to the collection (180499,
exchange).

Brown, Dr. Ipa A.
sity of Sydney.)

Brown, MABEL A., BRONXVILLE, N. Y.:
Military decoration, the Kearney
Cross (181700).

Brown, Dr. RoLanp W., Washington,
D. C.: 3 slabs of Upper Devonian
sandstone with impressions of fossils
(181009). (See also under Dr. Bar-
num Brown and U. S. Department of
the Interior, Geological Survey.)

Brown, Dr. W. J. (See under Cana-
dian Government, Department of
Agriculture.)

Brown, WILLIAM L., Jr. (See under
Harvard University, Biological Labo-
ratories and Museum of Comparative
Zoology.)

Brown UNIVERSITY, Providence, R. I.: 3
grasses (180778).

Bryan, Mitton M., Arlington, Va.: 1
model of New York Central “Hudson”
type locomotive with section of track
and 1 refrigerator car model with sec-
tion of track (179875, loan).

(See under Univer-

ACCESSIONS

Butt, S. J., Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone:
27 insects (180404).

Buttock, Prof. T. H., Los Angeles,
Calif.: 146 marine invertebrates, to-
gether with echinoderms (181863).

Buneart, Mrs. Peter A., Lorain, Ohio:
3 arthrodiran fishes collected by Peter
A. Bungart from Upper Devonian
shales of northern Ohio (181113).

Buranek, A. M., Salt Lake City, Utah:
1 cut stone of labradorite from Clear
Lake, Millard County, Utah, weighing
3.1 carats (180076, exchange).

BUSHLAND, R. C., Kerrville, Tex. : 1 par-
atype of chigger (182077).

BusHNELL, Davin I., Jr. (deceased) :
(Through executor of the Bushnell
Estate) Archeological specimens from
Egypt, Switzerland, France, and Italy
and from Illinois, Missouri, Virginia,
Alabama, South Carolina, Oregon,
and District of Columbia; also coins
and medals (180456).

Buxton, Dr. P. A. (See under London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Med-
icine.)

Byer, Pau. H., Hagerstown, Md.: Key-
stone typewriter with case (182326).

Byrp, Prof. Eton E., Athens, Ga.: Ap-
proximately 50 land, fresh-water, and
marine shells and also reptiles and
crustaceans from Tutuila Island, Sa-
moa Islands (181797).

CABALLERO Y CABALLERO, Dr. EpUaRpo,
Mexico, D. F.: 2 slides of trematode
from Veracruz, Mexico (181046).

CaLHoun, Dr. JoHN B., Baltimore, Md. :
12 rodents and 10 _ insectivores
(181214).

CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF, Berkeley,
Calif.: 11 grasses from California
(179958, exchange); 56 grasses
from Mexico (180048, exchange) ;
50 ferns from Mexico (180049, ex-
change) ; 12 Fijian potsherds col-
lected by Prof. E. W. Gifford in
1947 (180235); 1 fern (180257, ex-
change) ; 128 Mexican and Central
American plants (180433, exchange
and gift); 3 grasses from Mexico
(181209); 236 plants from Guam
collected by Robert Rodin (181978,
exchange) ; 52 grasses (182399, ex-
change) ; (through Dr. Richard M.
Bohart) 16 paratypes of mosquitoes
(175538, exchange) ; (through Prof.
Harold Kirby) 11,765 miscellaneous
marine invertebrates, together with
diatoms, mollusks, echinoderms,
and amphibians (180084) ; (through
Paul D. Hurd) 4 beetles (180964) ;
(through Dr. EH. W. Jameson) 25
mites, including type specimens
(181118); (through Dr. Frank
Pitelka) 7 isopod types (181174).

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Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside,
Calif.: (Through Prof. P. H. Tim-
berlake) 2 bees (179858, exchange).

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, San

Francisco, Calif.: 45 grasses from

California (179570, 180397, ex-

change) ; 24 grasses from California

(181208, 182550, 182256); 8 plants,

including 4 isotypes, from California

(181230, 182398, exchange) ; (through

Dr. D. Elmo Hardy) 1 paratype each

of 2 species of flies (180030) ;

(through Hugh B. Leech) 2 beetles,

both paratypes (180786, exchange) ;

(through Dr. EH. C. Van Dyke) 6

beetles, representing 3 _ species

(182888); (through Dr. Allyn G.

Smith) 10 paratype lots, 30 marine,

land, and fresh-water mollusks from

California and Idaho (182901).

CALLAN, Dr. BH. McC. (See under Im-
perial College of Tropical Agricul-

ture. )

CAMAIN R., Le Médecin Captaine. (See
under Institut Pasteur.)

CAMBRIDGE, Sgt. P., Cardiff, South
Wales: 135 assorted invertebrate
fossils from Mesozoic and Paleozoic
deposits of England (181855, ex-

change); approximately 400 land,
fresh-water, and marine mollusks

from Great Britain (1838189, ex-
change).
CAMPBELL, Guy, Corydon, Ind.: 500

specimens of Mississippian Rockford

formation invertebrate fossils from

Floyd County, Ind. (179823) ; 2 lumps

of Rockford limestone containing in-

vertebrate fossils from Mississippian

of Indiana (180314).

CaMRAS, Dr. SrpNney, Chicago, Ill.: 7
flies (178219, 181764).

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT, Ottawa,

tario:

Department of Agriculture, Division
of Entomology: (Through Dr.
W. J. Brown) 1388 beetles repre-
senting 33 species, of which 18 are
paratypes (181847, 181998); 14
grasshoppers representing 3 species
(182268).

Department of Agriculture, Central
Experimental Farm: 382 plants
from Canada (179027, 182675,
183024, exchange).

CANFIELD Funp, Smithsonian Institu-
tion: 1 specimen of hauynite from
Ariccia (Rome), Italy (179446); a
specimen of chaleocite after wood
from the Copper Glance mine, New
Mexico (179768); 1 quartz crystal
from Otomezaki mine, Yamanashi
Prefecture, 1 axinite specimen from
Obira mine, Oita Prefecture, 75 dan-
burites from Toroku mine, Miyazaki
Prefecture, all Japan (179822); 1

On-

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aquamarine with mica, weighing over
1,800 grams, from Minas Gerais,
Brazil (180138); 6 specimens of
portlandite from Mexico (180228) ; 1
lot of labradorite from Clear Lake,
Utah (180229) ; 1 specimen of mottra-
mite from Mammoth mine, Tiger,
Ariz. (180275) ; 14 specimens of Gold
Hill, Utah, arsenates and 1 lot of
labradorite from Clear Lake, Millard
County, Utah (180370) ; specimen of
echaleocite after wood from the Copper
Glance mine, Cuba, N. Mex. (180371) ;
4 minerals from North Groton, N. H.,
and Greenwood, Maine (1804638); 1
crystallized gold on quartz, Nakaze
mine, Hyogo, 1 gold with stibnite,
Nakaze mine, and 8 quartz groups of
twin crystals, Suisho Toge, Yaman-
ashi, Japan (180478) ; a specimen of
borax from Boron, Kern County,
Calif. (180595); 2 minerals from
Franklin, N. J. (180798) ; 3 minerals
from various localities in Italy
(180917) ; collection of 30 minerals
from Mexico (181006) ; 2 specimens
of ludlamite and messelite from the
Palermo mine, North Groton, N. H.
(182063) ; 1 magnesium-chlorophoe-
nicite and 38 chlorophoenicites from
Franktlin, N. J. (182070) ; 2 specimens
of pascoite, corvusite, and vanoxite
from Club mine, Uravan, Montrose
County, Colo. (182071); 1 amblygo-
nite from Newry, Maine (182072) ;
1 columbite from Keystone, S. Dak.
(182261) ; 2 specimens of caledonite
and 1 of linarite from San Bernardino
County, Calif. (182329) ; 1 jamesonite
and 1 chalcopyrite from Cananea, So-
nora, Mexico (182330) ; a zircon crys-
tal from 50 miles north of Alice
Springs, Northern Territory, Aus-
tralia (182384). (See also under
Ward’s Natural Science Establish-
ment. )

CARMIN, Dr. JosEPH, Ramatajim, Pales-
tine: 23 land and fresh-water shells
from Palestine (177198).

CARNEGIE Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa.:
(Through Gordon K. Macmillan) 59
land shells from Pennsylvania and
West Virginia (181936, exchange).

Caropsl, Prof. Guipo, Florence, Italy: A
specimen of mercallite from Vesuvius,
Italy (181988, exchange).

Carson, J. B., Sierra Blanca, Tex. and
Dr. EHsart INGERSON, Washington,
D. C.: 2 specimens of Cretaceous echi-
noid with several spines of the same
from vicinity of Sierra Blanca, Tex.
(179677).

CARSON-NEWMAN COLLEGE. Jefferson
City, Tenn.: (Through Prof. J. D.
Ives) 6 flies (181587).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

CARVALHO, Dr. Jost C. M., Rio de Ja-
neiro, Brazil: 2 paratype bugs (177-
490, exchange).

CARVALHO, Dr. J. PAtva, Sio Paulo, Bra-
zil: 7 pipefishes from Brazil (180162).

CASTELLANOS, A., Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina: (Through Dr. Lyman B, Smith)
Mesh bag and cordage made by Mata-
cos Indians living near source of the
Pilcomayo River, northwest Formosa,
near Ingenio Juarez, Argentina (182
392).

CENTRAL ASIATIC RESEARCH FOUNDA-
TION, Karachi, Pakistan: (Through
Dr. John Clark) 2 specimens of stib-
nite, Chitral District, northern Kash-
mir, Pakistan (180534).

Cuacre, Dr. FENNER A., Jr., Washington,
D. C.: 11 crabs (180354).

CHapWIcK, C. B., Sydney, New South
Wales: 14 bugs, representing 7 species
(182224, exchange).

CHAMBERLAIN, . B., Charleston, S. C.
(See under Roger Conant.)

CHAMBERLAIN FUND, FRANCES LEA,
Smithsonian Institution: 1 brazilian-
ite cut stone weighing 41.9 carats from
Conselheira Pena district. Arrasuahy,
Minas Gerais, Brazil (180409) ; 2 dan-
burite cut gems, one 7.85 carats from
Obira mine, Oita Prefecture, and the
other 3.75 carats, Toroku mine, Miya-
zaki Prefecture, from Japan (180-
477) ;1 diamond, green color produced
by bombardment in a cyclotron (182-
663) ; 1 orange sapphire (182883) ; a
cut stone of synthetic rutile, 22.5
earats (183095).

CHao, Hstu-ru, Amherst, Mass.: 5
dragonflies (181434).

CHaPINn, Dr. Epwarp A., Washington,
D. C.: 1 mollusk from Linnaeus Gar-
den, Uppsala, Sweden (180563); a
silver watch by Edward D. Johnson
(1816-1889), London, marked “Rail-
road Timekeeper, 13869” (183092).

CHAPMAN, Dr. WILBERT M., Washington,
D. C.: 13,734 fishes from the tropical
Western Pacific in the Solomons and
East Indies region (180183).

CHASE, JOSEPH CuMMINGS, New York,
N. Y.: 44 portraits of World War II
heroes painted by donor (166217) ;
portraits of Sgt. Alvin C. York and
Sgt. Samuel Woodfill painted by donor
during World War I (180139).

CHASE, Virainius H., Peoria Heights,
Ill.: 652 packets of mosses from Mis-
sissippi Valley (181164); 1,882
grasses from Illinois and Arkansas
(181165, 181975); 535 plants from
United States (181924, exchange).

CHATMAN, Rosert H., Washington,
D. C.: Discoidal club head of polished
diorite from the Fly River area of the
Territory of Papua, New Guinea, col-
lected in 1942 (182335).

ACCESSIONS

CHEN, Dr. H. T., Chicago, Il. : 15 fresh-
water mollusks from near Canton,
China (181511).

CHENG, N., Peiping Station, China: 33
plants from China (179834).

CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Chicago,
Tll.: (Through Dr. Albert G. Smith) 2
paralectotypes of a new Western
Plains garter snake from Dewey
County, S. Dak. (182732).

Cuicaco NATURAL History MUSEUM,
Chicago, I1l.: 12 ferns from Nicaragua
and Honduras (180005, exchange) ; 2
algae from Maryland collected by
Drouet and Killip (180074, ex-
change); 1 grass from Venezuela
(180396); 6 plants from Ecuador
(180529, 182037), 346 plants from Co-
lombia (180542, 180543, 180739,
181167, exchange) ; 296 plants chiefly
from Central America (180545, ex-
change); 35 fragments of South
American plants (180605) ; 19 plants
from Ecuador (180706, exchange) ; 29
photographs of plants (180734, 180982,
exchange); 1 grass from Missouri
(181001, exchange); 1 grass from
Eeuador (181492, exchange); 8 Co-
lombian plants collected by J. Cuatre-
casas (181692); 3 photographs of
Venezuelan plants (181646, ex-
change) ; 2 phanerogams from HEcua-
dor (182158) ; 7 plants from Colom-
bia (182258); 1 fragment of plant
from a requested loan (182449).

CHIESA, DoMINIC, San Francisco, Calif. :
40 pictorial photographs for exhibi-
tion during December 1948 (181114,
loan).

CHILE EXPLORATION Co., New York, N.
Y.: (Through Burr Wheeler) 18 min-
erals from Chuquicamata, Chile, in-
eluding salesite, bellingerite, sam-
pleite and marshite (180150).

CHIN, TA Hsvuine, Shanghai, China:
Type specimens of 2 new species of
helminths from a cormorant from Illi-
nois (179664).

Cuina, W.H. (See under British Gov-
ernment, British Museum (Natural
History).)

CHINN, EH. BertHa: (Through Mrs. Ed-
ward E. Bomar) Black satin dress
and white taffeta dress trimmed with
blue velvet of the period 1875-1890
(182334, bequest).

Curist, J. H., Portland, Oreg. : 7 grasses
from Idaho (181538).

CuHurcH, Dr. J. E., Alexandria, Va.:
Fuegian skull with lower jaw
(180128).

Citron, MinnA, New York, N. Y.: 39
prints including etchings and litho-
graphs by the lender for special ex-
hibition during March 1949 (181844,
loan).

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CLAGHORN, Mrs. CONSTANCE I., Cabin
John, Md.: 3 etchings (180281).

CLaRK, AUSTIN H., Washington, D. C.:
1 land shell from Highland County,
Va. (179978).

CLARK, ELLEN, Box Hill, Victoria: 8
crayfish (181297).

CLARK, Dr. JoHN. (See under Central
Asiatic Research Foundation. )

CLARK UNIVERSITY, Worcester, Mass.: 3
grasses from Massachusetts (179902,
180279, exchange) ; 1 grass from Mas-
sachusetts (181655).

CLaupE, Mrs. W. T., Elkridge, Md.: 1
insect from Maryland (180520).

CLEBSCcH, ALFRED, Clarksville, Tenn.:
80 grasses from Tennessee (182005).

CLEMENS, Howarp P., Put in Bay, Ohio:
14 amphipods (179030).

CLEMENT, Rey. Brother, Santiago, Cuba:
67 ferns from Cuba (182459, 182746).

CLENCH, WILLIAM J., Cambridge, Mass. :
22 crustaceans from the Philippines
(182580). (See also under Harvard
University, Museum of Comparative
Zoology.)

CLiFToNn, Mrs. Henry, New York, N. Y.:
Wooden model of a railroad auto-
matie coupler invented by Col. Ezra
Miller (179745).

CuiINE, Dr. Lewis M., Madison, Wis.: 1
Mississippian crinoid from Indiana
(181806).

CoaTES, Mrs. JAMES E.
Mrs. Harold Berry.)
CocHRAN, Dr. Doris M., Washington,
D. C.: 1 young robin and 1 olive-

backed thrush (179863, 183145).

Cocke, Mrs. H. T., Washington, D. C.:
Pheasant-feather parasol of middle
19th century (180949).

Copy, MorriLt, Washington, D. C.: 101
miscellaneous insects from Paraguay
(181010).

CoHEN, Mrs. Louis, Arlington, Va.:
Brain of Dr. Louis Cohen (180748).

Cote, H. J., Washington, D. C.: 224 rep-
tiles and amphibians and 1 fish col-
lected in various eastern States by
donor (179935).

CoLgE, O. C., Kenyon, Minn.: About 2,000
invertebrate fossils from Ordovician
(Decorah) of Minnesota (179571) ;
about 500 Middle Ordovician inverte-
brate fossils from Minnesota (179-
821) ; 2,500 Middle Ordovician inver-
tebrate fossils from vicinity of Ken-
yon (180153) ; 2,500 assorted inverte-
brate fossils from Ordovician of
southern Minnesota (181804).

CoLEGIO ANCHIETA, Porto Alegre, Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil: 54 grasses
from Brazil (179246, exchange); 48
grasses from Brazil (180047).

(See under

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CoLEGIO ANCHIETA, Nova Friburgo, Es-
tado Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 11 plants
from Brazil (181488).

CoLEMAN, Rosert H., Charleston, S. C.:
7 rodents from Arizona, Montana, and
New Mexico (174894).

CoLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, Poona, India:
20 plants (180226, exchange).

COLLEGE OF Pucet Sounp, Tacoma,
Wash.: 1 plant from Washington
(188027).

COLLEGE OF THE Paciric, Pacific Marine
Station, Dillon Beach, Calif.:
(Through Robert J. Menzies) 34 iso-
pod types (181173).

COLLIER, ALBERT, New Orleans, La.: 8
brackish-water mollusks from Missis-
Sippi Delta (180248).

COLLINS, Dr. HENRY B., Jr.
Willie Knutsen. )

CoLLins, LriacH R., Pittsburgh, Pa.:
Incomplete articulated skeleton of an
amphibian from Mississippian, Mauch
rane series, at Greer, W. Va. (180-
791).

CoOLOMBIAN GEOLOGICAL SurvEY, Bogota,
Colombia: (Through Gilberto Botero-
Restrepo) 4 lots of Devonian inverte-
brate fossils from Colombia (181178,
exchange).

CoLORADO, UNIVERSITY oF, Boulder,
Colo.: 59 plants (180258, 181374, ex-
change); 10 grasses from Colorado
and Canada (181415).

Cotorapo A. & M. CoLLecE, Fort Collins,
Colo. ; 2 fragments of plants (182486).

Conant, Roger, Philadelphia, Pa.: 12
land shells from Smith Island, North-
ampton County, Va. (181016).

CoNANT, Roger, Philadelphia, Pa., and
H). B. CHAMBERLAIN, Charleston, S. C.:
1 reptile paratype from Louisiana and
a neotype of reptile from South Caro-
lina (1799338).

Conarp, Prof. Henry S., Grinnell, Iowa:
118 mosses from various localities
(181648).

CONDE, VICENTE, Cardenas, Cuba: Ap-
proximately 100 mollusks from Cuba
(182617, exchange).

Conover, J. Towne, Allentown, Pa.: 52
ferns from Okinawa (179839).

CoocLE, Dr. C. P., Houston, Tex.: 4 mos-
quitoes from Texas (181703) ; 8 flies,
representing 4 species, from Texas
(182056).

Cook, Prof. H. FuLierton, Philadelphia,
Pa.: Remington’s “Practice of Phar-
macy” by Cook-Martin, 9th edition
(180142).

CooxkE, Dr. C. WyTHE. (See under Mrs.
L. P. Jones and U. S. Department of
the Interior, Geological Survey.)

Cooper, Dr. Byron N., Blacksburg, Va.:
4 specimens of unusual graptolites
from Virginia (180945, exchange).

(See under

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Cooper, Dr. G. ARTHUR, Washington,
D. C.: 3 earthenware vessels and a
spindle whorl from vicinity of Paler-
mo, Sicily (180948).

Coorrer, Dr. G. ArtHuR, and Dr. A. R.
LOEBLICH, Jr., Washington, D. C.: 66
insects and scorpions collected in
Texas during the summer of 1948 by
donors (180445).

Corr, LESLIE, Roseville, Ohio: 42 etch-
ings and 2 lithographs lent for special
exhibition during February 1949 (179-
100, loan).

Corr, Dr. OLiIveER B. (See under U. S.
Department of the Interior, Fish and
Wildlife Service.)

CoPELAND, W. A., St. Paul, Minn.: 18
fresh-water mollusks from St. Paul
(182018).

CorRBEN, Harry, Washington, D. C.: 1
timber rattlesnake from southwest
of Capon Bridge, W. Va. (183130).

CorpE, Sister Mary, Maryknoll, N. Y.:
26 marine shells from Hawaiian Is-
lands (180644).

CorpERo, Dr. E. H., Montevideo, Uru-
guay: 1 lot of tubeworm mass (180-
296).

CorK INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, New York,
N. Y.: 100 specimens and 9 photo-
graphs illustrating production and
utilization of cork bark and its prod-
ucts, together with a cherrywood case
complete with lighting facilities (183-
152).

CorRNELL UNIvERSITY, New York State
College of Agriculture, Wiegand Her-
barium, Ithaca, N. Y.: 254 plants from
Georgia (181232, 1818388, exchange) ;
1 plant from Cortland County, N. Y.
(181645, exchange).

CoRPORAAL, Dr. J. B., Amsterdam, Neth-
erlands: 56 beetles representing 27
named species and varieties, includ-
ing 10 paratypes (179847, exchange).

Cory, E. N. (See under Mrs. Dixon.)

CoryNDON Museum, Nairobi, Kenya Col-
ony, East Africa: (Through Dr. L. S.
B. Leakey) Casts of mandible and
facial fragment of the fossil ape Pro-
consul africanus Hopwood (180447,
purchase).

Cotter, Joun L. (See under U. S. De-
partment of the Interior, National
Park Service.)

Corron-TEXTILE INSTITUTE. INC., New
York, N. Y.: 35 cotton textiles pro-
duced by American manufacturers for
the 1949 season (182166).

CorTreLL, R. E., Houston, Pa.: 9 frag-
ments of fossil wood from Pennsyl-
vanian rocks in vicinity of Canons-
burg, Pa. (180814).

CralIc, Col. Marin, San Francisco,
Calif.: Full-dress uniform coat, pair
of shoulder knots, belt, and cap owned

ACCESSIONS

by Gen. Malin Craig, U. S. A., Chief
of Staff, 1935-1939 (179959).

CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE,
Bloomfield Hills, Mich.: 1 specimen
of crystallized native copper from
Central mine, Keweenaw Peninsula,
Mich. (182609, exchange).

CRANDELL, D.R. (See under Yale Uni-
versity. )

CRANE, JOCELYN, New York, N. Y.: 2
crabs (180885).

CRANE, WiLsuR, Newark, N. J.: Diode
vacuum tube, tubular envelope, and
bayonette base (182932).

Crreaser, Prof. HE. P. (See under Hof-
stra College. )

CRICKMAY, Dr. CoLin.
perial Oil, Limited. )

CroucH, HExuis, Manassas, Va.:
(Through BH. G. Laybourne) 1 hognose
snake collected at fork of Occoquan
River and Bull Run, Prince William
County, Va. (180400).

CUATRECASAS, Dr. J., Chicago, Ill.: 3
plants from Colombia (181313).

CUMMING, ROBERT B., Jr., Lincoln, Nebr.
(See under Smithsonian Institution,
Bureau of American Ethnology, River
Basin Surveys.)

Curran, Dr. C. H. (See under Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History.)

Curtis, Karu P., Gamboa, Canal Zone:
Gold-plated ornaments from shaft
tombs in the vicinity of Sona, Vera-
guas, Panama, and 2 gold fishhooks
from Rio Colimera, Colombia (181-
570); skull of 1 tapir from Panama
(181943).

Daaa, H. M., Seattle, Wash.: 2 yucca-
fiber sandals from a cave 20 miles
from Morenci, Greenlee County, Ariz.
(181358).

DAHLGREEN, CHARLES W., Oak Park,
Til.: 3 etchings—“Self Portrait’? and
“Baigneuse’ by Anders Zorn and
“Promenade du Dimanche (Créve-
coeur)” by Auguste Lepére (179985) ;
45 monotypes and 12 etchings by do-
nor (183159).

DAHLGREEN FunpD. Smithsonian Institu-
tion: 8 serigraphs (180021) ; 1 cello-
cut, “Pleistocene Monarchs,” by Boris
Margo (181318) ; 2 serigraphs, “Rain”
by Harry Shokler and “Afternoon at
Jones” by Doris Meltzer (181658) ;
soft-ground etching, ‘“Temoins 4 1]’Au-
dience,” by Jean Louis Forain (182-
264).

DAHLSTROM, Dr. R.
tional Lead Co.)

DaLMAT, Dr. HERBERT T., Guatemala
City, Guatemala: 24 fishes, 156 mis-
cellaneous insects, 3 frogs, 1 lot of
tadpoles, and 20 marine inverte-
brates from Yepocapa, Guatemala
(180646); a collection of insects,

(See under Im-

(See under Na-

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spiders, mammal, snakes, lizards,
frog, roundworm (181070) ; approxi-
mately 86 crabs (181419, 182311);
11,805 miscellaneous insects, 4 crabs,
3 lots gordiid worms and 1 lot am-
phibians from Guatemala (181505,
181664) ; approximately 270 miscel-
laneous insects, including some col-
lected in the Department of Huehue-
tenango (183011).

DANIEL, Brother, Medellin, Colombia:
51 plants from Colombia (183089).
DANSBY, JOHN C., Balboa, Canal Zone:
1 section of railroad rail formerly
used on the old Panama Railroad

Line (182931).

DARLINGTON, Dr. P. J. (See under
Harvard University, Museum of Com-
parative Zoology.)

Da RocHa, Prof. Dras, Ceara, Brazil: 7
marine invertebrates (181175).

Dart, Dr. RaymMonp A., Johannesburg,
South Africa: Cast of occiput and
mandible of the fossil primate Aws-
tralopithecus prometheus (181018).

D’AsceNzO, Nicota G., Bala-Cynwyd,
Pa.: A cut topaz colored brown by
radium treatment (181237); a sap-
phire, step cut, 7.99 carats (181925,
exchange); 1 cut stone of petalite
from Southwest Africa, weighing
10.67 carats, and 13 specimens of the
rough material from which the stone
was cut (182665, exchange) ; a 3-ray
pink tourmaline and 12 pieces of
amblygonite from South Africa
(183002, exchange).

Davis, Dr. CHARLES C., Cleveland, Ohio:
3 microscope slides of copepod types
(181480).

Davis, Dr. Davip E., Baltimore, Md.: 1
shrew and 1 bat from Giles County,
Va. (181213).

Davis, Lt. J. H., Washington, D. C.: 4
fossil fishes from the Pleistocene sedi-
ments of Sundrastrom Fiord, West
Greenland, collected in summer of
1948 (182383).

Davis, MARGUERITE (deceased):
(Through Marion Walker) 1 medal-
lion of Daniel Davis, 1813-1887
(182693).

Day, ALBERT M. (See under U. S. De-
partment of the Interior, Fish and
Wildlife Service.)

De BeEavrort, Dr. L. F. (See under
Zoological Museum, Amsterdam.)

DEGELIUS, Dr. GUNNAR, Uppsala, Swe-
den: 602 lichens (180980).

Decruy, InEs V., New Orleans, La.: 2
color photomicrographs which re-
ceived honorable mention in 1947
Photography in Science Salon—“Syn-
thetic Resin Polymerized in Wood”
and “Cotton Fiber Swelled to Show
Ballooning” (181932).

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DEICHMANN, Dr. ELIsABeTH. (See un-
der Harvard University, Museum of
Comparative Zoology.)

DE LAUBENFELS, Dr. M. W., Honolulu,
Hawaii: 22 lots of sponges of which
12 lots are types (181951).

De LEON, Gen. ALFREDO J., Yonkers,
N. Y.: (Through Mrs. Toms Doyle)
1 skin of an anaconda from Arauca
on the Colombian-Venezuelan bound-
ary collected by Commissioner Carlos
E. Sguerra (180350).

De Secura, Sefiora CoNSUELO BAZAN,
Washington, D. C.: Malla Bordada
silk lace luncheon cloth made by
Sefiora Adolfina Pizarro de Bazdn,
mother of donor (182336).

De YounG, Mrs. Lywtz, Kasson, Minn.: 1
plant from India (182679); 1 plant

(182949).
De ZARATE Y LOPEZ, Dr. ADOLFO ORTIZ,
Najera, Logrono, Spain: Approxi-

mately 750 land mollusks from Spain
(181818, exchange); 330 land mol-
lusks from Spain (182938).
DILLARD, Berry, Cullowhee, N. C.: 1
plant (180024).

Dixon, Mrs., Cumberland, Md.:
(Through HK. N. Cory) About 150 land
mollusks from Cumberland (180915).

Dover & OLcoTT, INc., New York, N. Y.:
A book entitled “The Story of an
Unique Institution” (180908).

DoNALDSON, IvAN, Bonneville, Oreg.: 30
worms from the white sturgeon, Bon-
neville Dam, Oregon (182067, 182773).

Doocuin, Herman, Coral Cables, Fla.:
Approximately 10 shipworms from
southern Florida (182905).

DooLitTrLE, Dr. ALFRED A., Washington,
D. C.: 1 mollusk, 2 hermit crabs, and
11 flies from Florida (180681).

Dory, Prof. MAxwetut §., Evanston,
Tll.: 2 lichens (181233).

Dorie, Mrs. TomAs. (See under Gen.
Alfredo J. De Leén.)

Drarcer, Capt. R. H., Bethesda, Md.:
Approximately 30,600 marine and
land shells from the Marshall Islands
and Guam (174947).

DRAKE, Rosert J., Albuquerque, N.
Mex.: 602 land and fresh-water mol-
lusks from Kansas, Arizona, and New
Mexico and Chihuahua and Coahuila,
Mexico (180056, 181908); 8 land
shells from Apache County, Ariz.
(181541) ; 2 leeches from southeastern
Chihuahua (182054).

DreispacH, R. R., Midland, Mich.: 1
wasp paratype (178631).

Dryranper, Mrs. EpirH, Valle, Colom-
bia: Plant from Colombia (180225).
DuxKeE UNIVERSITY, Durham, N. C.: 1
plant from Tennessee (180045, ex-

change).

DUNELE, Dr. Davin H., Washington, D.
C.: 4 fossil fishes (180866).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Dupont, JAMES M., Chatham, N. J.: 4
pieces of Miocene wood from New Jer-
sey (180679) ; 1 brachiopod from EKo-
cene of New Jersey (180740).

Du Pont pE Nemours & Co., BE. I., Wil-
mington, Del.: (Through W. N. Mc-
Cawley) 6 photographic transparen-
cies, scenes Showing stage in the ny-
lon manufacturing process (182069).

Haps, Dr. RicHarp B., Austin, Tex.: 4
fleas, including 2 types and 2 allotypes
(180373, 181701).

HASTMAN Kopak Co., Rochester, N. Y.:
(Through Keith Lewis) 1 Ekta-
chrome transparency (179877) ;
(through Noble C. Ferguson) 10 color
prints; 6 from Kodachrome transpar-
encies and 4 from Ektachrome trans-
parencies made by donor (180597).

Easton, Dr. W. H. (See under Univer-

sity of Southern California.)
COLE D’AGRICULTURE, Rimouski, Que-
bee: 97 plants (180981, exchange) ;
171 plants from Alaska (182604, ex-
change).

Ep@ar, 8S. ALLEN, address unknown: 1
habu snake from Okinawa received
from Lt. Robert Reiman (174871).

Epmonpson, Dr. C. H., Honolulu, T. H.:
6 wood-boring mollusks from Cavite,
Luzon, P. I. (180199) ; 75 amphipods
taken from seaweed in Kawela Bay,
Oahu, T. H. (180848) ; approximately
53 amphipods (182040, 182991) ; 2 al-
cyonarians (182458). (See also un-
der Bernice P. Bishop Museum.)

Epwarps, W. H. (See under British
Government, Depariment of Agricul-
ture.)

Enters, Dr. G. M., Ann Arbor, Mich.:
17 plaster casts of type and figured
Devonian pelecypods from Michigan
(180944).

EIDMANN, Dr. H. A., Miinden, Germany :
588 ants, representing 196 forms (17-
8011, exchange).

EuuiottT, Lt. Col. Ewine W. (See un-
der National Military Hstablishment,
Department of the Army, 8002d Hy-
droponic Farm Depot.)

Exuiort, Roy A., Baker, Oreg.: 1 root
of the Mesozoic plant Tempskya wes-
seli Arnold from the vicinity of Baker
(181842).

Evuis, Prof. Hazet R., Chittenango, N.
Y.: 63 plants from Manitoba (177136).

ELWELL, Mrs. JEAN, Detroit, Mich.: 60
pictorial photographs for special ex-
hibition during September 1948
(180280, loan); 6 pictorial photo-
graphs by donor (180784).

Ey, Dr. CHartes A., New York, N. Y.:
53 lots of marine invertebrates to-
gether with specimens of fishes, mol-
lusks, and echinoderms (181402).

EMERSON, Dr. K. C., Stillwater, Okla.:
5 slides of insects (180907).

ACCESSIONS 9]
EMERSON, WILLIAM K., San Diego, (174753) ; 33 photographs of desert
Calif.: Approximately 800 marine plants from Blanes (180593).

mollusks, including 15 topotype lots
from California (180471, 182900, ex-
change) ; 2 mollusks from the Philip-
pines (182835).

Enpers, Prof. RoBERT K., Swarthmore,
Pa.: Skins and skeletons of 1 grizzly
and 1 black bear from Wyoming
collected during summer of 1948
(181197).

HNGLISH, WALTER C. (deceased). (See
under Mrs. Edith Keyes Benton.)
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHING-
TON, Washington, D. C.: (Through
Dr. Ashley B. Gurney) Pane of 25
60-centavo ultramarine postage
stamps issued in 1948, portraying dif-
ferent varieties of the flora and fauna

of Chile (1828382).

HRDMAN, DONALD S., Washington, D. C.:
150 marine mollusks from the state
of Colima, Mexico (180420); 969
fishes and mollusks from Puerto Rico
collected in September 1948 (180686) ;
5 sea-urchins from Puerto Rico col-
lected in 1945 (180779).

Favour, Pau, Luray, Va.: 1 shrew and
1 fox skull from Shenandoah National
Park, Virginia (181289).

FEARNLEY, Mrs. JoHN, New York, N. Y.:
1 cultivated plant (182704).

FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY:

U. S. Public Health Service, Hamil-
ton, Mont.: (Through Dr. William
L. Jellison) 2 cottontail rabbits col-
lected from Bartel Ranch, south of
Chadron, Nebr. (182771); 25 flies
(183017).

U. S. Public Health Service, Jackson-
ville, Fla.: (Through D. C. Thur-
man, Jr.) 24 specimens of mosquito
material (179961).

U. 8S. Public Health Service, Memphis,
Tenn.: 1 rock squirrel caught near
Junction in Kimble County, Tex.
(179921).

U. S. Public Health Service, Savan-
nah, Ga.: Approximately 300 flies
(180870).

FEIGHT, Mrs. Horack, Dayton, Ohio: 1
fern from Ohio (183082).

ESscuELA AqgRicoLA PANAMERICANA, Te-| FELL, Dr. H. B., Wellington, New Zea-

gucigalpa, Honduras: 1 plant from
Honduras (180089); 67 ferns from
Honduras (180101, exchange); 32
ferns from Honduras (181781); 11
grasses from Honduras (181787) ; 651
Central American plants (183147,
exchange).

EsIsI~tL, Mrs. HANNAH, Washington,
D. C.: 6 specimens of miscellaneous
women’s apparel of last quarter of
19th century (180140).

Hssic, Prof. BE. O., Berkeley, Calif.: 38
slides of aphids (181011).

EsTacAo AGRONOMICA NACIONAL, Saca-
vem, Portugal: 100 grasses from Por-
tugal (182605, exchange).

EstTacI6ON BPXPERIMENTAL AGRONOMICA,
Habana, Cuba: 3 plants from Cuba
(181000).

Evans, Dr. ALEXANDER W., New Haven,
Conn. : 81 lichens (180591, exchange).

Evans, Howarp W., Ithaca, N. Y.: 10
wasps, representing 5 species (181438,
exchange).

EVERSON, WILLIAM, Berkeley, Calif.:
Specimen of fine hand printing—an
illustrated page from “A Privacy of
Speech,” a sequence of 10 poems by
donor (180317).

FAIRCHILD, Dr. G. B. (See under Gor-
gas Memorial Laboratory. )

Fane, Prof. WEN-PEr. (See under Na-
tional Szechwan University. )

FarNER, Dr. Donatp S§., Pullman,
Wash.: 1 aquatic beetle and 17 mol-
lusks (179796).

Faust, Dr. Cartos, Blanes, Gerona,
Spain: 1 plant from Colombia

land: 17 insects (183007, exchange).

FELLOWS, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. A. T.,
Portsmouth, Va.: 6 Miocene fossils
from York River, Va. (180285).

FERGUSON, Dr. FREDERICK F., Seattle,
Wash.: 4 microscope slides contain-
ing 5 specimens of worms (180519).

Frreuson, Noste C. (See under Hast-
man Kodak Co.)

Fiptar, M. M. (See under Mountain
Fuel Supply Co.)

FINDLAY, GORDON R., Niagara Falls, On-
tario: 4 specimens of carborundum
and 1 of artificial periclase (180369).
(See also under Norton Co.)

FISCHTHAL, Dr. J. H., Endicott, N. Y.:
Holotype of blood fluke (182303).

FISHER, Dr. WALTER K., Pacific Grove,
Calif.: 1 worm (180401); 1 echino-
derm (180685) ; miscellaneous skele-
tal and other material from the
collections of the late Dr. A. K.
Fisher, including parts of reptile,
bird, mammal, and fish skeletons, 3
human skulls, and 1 _ scorpion
(181141).

FLEISCHER, Dr. MICHAEL.
Dr. Frederick H. Pough.)

(See under

FLinT, D. E. (See under U. S. Depart-
ment of the Interior, Geological
Survey.)

Fuint, Dr. LEwis H. (See under Loui-
siana State University.)

FLORIDA, UNIVERSITY OF, Gainesville,
Fla.: 2 grasses from Florida
(181651); (through Dr. Frank N.
Young) 16 beetles taken from squirrel
nests in Florida by J. C. Moore
(177971).

92

Fiorina SOUTHERN COLLEGE, Lakeland,
Fla.: 22 plants from Florida
(181539).

FLoriIpA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tallahassee,
Fla.: 1 magnolia from Florida
(180922, exchange).

Force, CLARENCE. (See under Utah
Scenie Stone Corp.)

ForEMAN Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.: A
1-yard sample of a gray rayon mate-
lasse fabric (181918).

FospYXKE, GEorGE J., Los Angeles, Calif. :
16 United States unused postage
stamps (180984).

Foster, Dr. A. O. (See under UV. S.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of
Animal Industry.)

Foster, Mutrorp B., Orlando, Fla.: 1
plant from Florida (180203) ; 9 pho-
tographs of plants from Colombia
(180674) ; 10 plants (180703) ; 1 phan-
erogam (180765); 45 plants from
Brazil (181024); 152 plants from
South and Central America (181489) ;
66 photographs of bromeliads
(182822).

Fow Ler, Dr. James A., Philadelphia,
Pa.: 138 salamanders from Maryland
and Virginia collected by donor in
1946 and 1948 (179776).

FRANCLEMONT, JOHN G., Washington,
D. C.: 93 Lepidoptera (182936).

FRrRAYSER, Mrs. BENJAMIN H., Norfolk,
Va.: Navaho silver bracelet and
Navaho silver spoon (180175).

FRENCH GRATITUDE TRAIN, D. C. Com-
mittee, Washington, D. C.: (Through
S. Olson) 96 samples of Jacquard
narrow fabric weaving (1850-1900) ;
1 sample of chiffon, woven of rayon
and metallic yarns; 1 hand-woven
linen piece; 1 Jacquard woven pic-
ture (black and white), rayon; 1
Jacquard woven picture, tinted rayon ;
and 1 hand-woven wool scarf with
embroidered design (182981) ;
(through Ernestine Perry) 3 speci-
mens of paper money of the French
Revolution, and cireular paper em-
blem commemorating the French
Gratitude Train project (183162).

Frey, Davin G., Chapel Hill, N. C.: 180
fresh-water mollusks from North
Carolina and 1 lot of insects
(179975).

FRIZZELL, Dr. Don L., Rolla, Mo.: 3 rare
marine pelecypods from Ecuador,
topotypes (182394).

Frost, Dr. S. W., State College, Pa.: 4
flies, 2 holotypes and 2 paratypes
(181378).

FULLER, FRANK E., Bloomington, Ill. : 55
pictorial photographs for exhibit dur-
ing November 1948 (180869, loan).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

FULLER, Dr. Henry S., Boston, Mass.: 3
Slides of mites, larva-nymph-adult
taken at Montjoly, French Guiana,
May 26, 1945, off lizard sent to Dr.
Fuller by Dr. E. Abonnene of the
Institut Pasteur (181452, exchange).

GALLAGHER, Davip, Grand Junction,
Colo.: 1 specimen of pyromorphite
from Broken Hill, Rhodesia (182825).

GALLowAy, J. C., Punta Gorda, Fla.: 3
plants from Florida (183025).

GALTsSOFF, Dr. P. S. (See under U. S.
Department of the Interior, Fish and
Wildlife Service.)

GARDEN, WILLIAM, Seattle, Wash.: 7
prints and tracings of west coast
watercraft (181003).

GARDNER, Dr. JuLIA A.
Kotora Hatai.)

GARRISON, J. MEYERS, Ramsey, N. J.: 1
framed lithograph in color of Rogers
locomotive “Thomas Rogers” approx-
imately 27 by 39 inches (180510).

GATHEMANN, Mrs. ExrmMa H., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 3 examples of Victorian
needlework made by Anna Dhlert,
grandmother of donor, about 1867
(183022).

GEMMELL, JEAN, Glen Aplin, Queens-
land: 6 butterflies including 1 typical,
1 rare white form, and 4 old forms
(180077, exchange).

GrorGiA, UNIVERSITY or, Athens, Ga.:
766 plants from Georgia (180342,
180764, exchange) ; 29 grasses from
Georgia (180082, exchange); 119
grasses from Georgia (180705,
181719).

GEORGIA KAOLIN Co., Dry Branch, Ga.:
(Through §. C. Lyons) 2 teeth of fos-
sil sawfish from middle Eocene of
Georgia (180485).

Grorcia State GAME AND Fisu Com-
MISSION, Brunswick, Ga.: (Through
Dr. John Oney) 2 shrimps and 9 crabs
(180355, 181211) ; 18 marine inverte-
brates, fishes, mollusks, and an
echinoderm (182065).

GEORGETOWN UNIveERSITY, Washington,
D. C.: Collection of archeological
material and 51 ethnological speci-
mens from American Indians, Eskimo,
Oceania, Philippine Islands, and
Europe (181344).

Gippines, D. S. (deceased): A cotton
rag, possibly used as an apron, found
in a cave 20 miles from Morenci,
Greenlee County, Ariz., on loan since
July 27, 1901 (182389).

GitmorE, Dr. RayMoND M. (See under
U. S. Department of the Interior, Fish
and Wildlife Service.)

Ginis, Brother, Caracas, Venezuela:
121 plants from the Perijé region of
Venezuela (179390); 50 plants from
El Hatillo, Venezuela (180249).

(See under Dr.

ACCESSIONS

Giorgi, Prof. Ing. Giovanni, Rome,
Italy: 93 land shells from Italy, in-
cluding 3 paratypes (181198, ex-
change).

Grupicr, Jonun J., Columbia, Mo.: Ap-
proximately 25 lernaeid copepods
(182989).

GIveN, Mrs. HELEN D., Washington,
D. C.: 2 pieces of white hand-embroi-
dery work, silk on wool, made by Miss
Joanna Rockwood, about 1870
(183151).

GuasER, JANE K., Chicago, Ill.: Color
photograph by donor showing tumor
masses in soft tissue of rabbit from
primary bone tumor, which won hon-
orable mention in the Color Division
of the First International Photog-
raphy-in-Science Competition, 1947
(180026).

Guiockx, C. A., Lynwood, Calif.: A de
Forest valve (181004).

Gorn, Dr. CoLteMAN J., Gainsville, Fla.:
1 frog from Jamaica collected in 1948,
to become type specimen (181796).

GoLpBEerG, Louis, Norwich, Conn.; 2
pairs of metal ice skates and 1 odd
skate (180130) ; 1 pair of ice skates
with wooden bodies and long steel
runners (180780).

Gonca.ves, C. R., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
227 ants (168756, exchange) ; 36 ants
(180694).

GoopNIGHT, CLARENCE J., Lafayette,
Ind.: 1 crab (180829).

GoopPAstTuRE, Dr. C. QO.
(Through Dr. Riley D. Moore) 6 books
(181073).

Gorpon, Mr. and Mrs. JOHN BENNETT,
Washington, D. C.: 1 wooden kava
bowl probably from Samoa and 1
colored tapa probably from Fiji
(181071).

Goraas MEMORIAL LABORATORY, Panama
City, Panama: (Through Dr. G. B.
Fairchild) 7 slides of mosquito ma-
terial (180985).

Goss, Mrs. HELENE, Louisville, Ky.: 1
beetle from Louisville (180527).

Grar, J. E., Washington, D. C.: 225 mis-
cellaneous insects from the Canal
Zone, collected by donor during sum-
mer of 1948 (180444).

Grant, Dr. U. S., Los Angeles, Calif. :
(Through Dr. W. P. Woodring) 1
pelecypod paratype from Miocene of
San Luis Obispo County, Calif.
(1819380).

Graves, Mrs. EB. R., Washington, D. C.:
1 yellow-bellied sapsucker (180684).

GREEN, J. W., Easton, Pa.: 12 beetles
(181035).

GREENE, CHARLES T., Washington, D.C.:
12,000 flies containing paratypes in
several families, several genera and

858769—50——T

(deceased) : |:

93

Species including a number from
Europe being new to the Museum’s col-
lection (181811).

GREGER, D. K., Fulton, Mo.: 1 crinoid
from Mississippian rocks of the vicin-
ity of St. Louis, Mo. (182464, ex-
change).

Greaa, Mrs. C. R., St. Charles, Ill.: 1
pair of fur slippers brought from
Russia about 1892 by donor’s father
(164257).

Greece, Dr. Rosert E., Boulder, Colo.:
19 ants representing 5 species
(180071, exchange).

Grreea, Dr. WENDELL O., Los Angeles,
Calif.: 112 land shells from Califor-
nia, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming
(180789, 181853).

GREY, Rev. JoHN, Charlottesville, Va.: 1
wren and 1 shrike (183144).

GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, THE DANIEL
AND FLORENCE, New York, N. Y.: Rob-
ert H. Goddard rocket for exhibit
March 21 to June 30, 1949 (182608,
loan).

GUIMARAES, Dr. LinpotPpHo R., Sio
Paulo, Brazil: 14 insects (180374,
exchange).

GULLION, GorDON W., Eugene, Oreg.: 7
hematodes and 27 insect larvae
(179797).

GUNNELL, E. M., Denver, Colo.: 2 min-
erals—rickardite from Good Hope
mine, Vulean, Gunnison County, and
melonite (?) from Boulder County,
both in Colorado (181443, exchange).

GUNTER, GorpDON. (See under Univer-
sity of Texas.)

GuRNEY, Dr. ASHLEY B., Washington,
D. C.: A collection of miscellaneous
insects collected by donor in New
York and Massachusetts (180164) ;
1,248 insects, mostly grasshoppers,
collected by J. M. Schunke in Peru
and purchased by donor (180489).
(See also under Entomological Society
of Washington.)

Haas, Dr. Otto, (See under American
Museum of Natural History.)

HABEEB, Dr. HERBERT, Grand Falls, New
Brunswick: 28 lichens from New
Brunswick, Canada (181656).

Hapiey, Mrs. F. K., West Newton,
Mass.: Approximately 100 mollusks
(181862) ; approximately 1,000 mis-
cellaneous mollusks (183190, ex-
change).

Hatt, Davip G., Washington, D. C.:
377 insects, chiefly Diptera, from
Britain and the Pacific Islands
(181377) ; 795 flies collected by Dr.
Cc. H. T. Townsend in southern
Brazil (181704).

HALLstrom, BD. J. L., Sydney, New South
Wales: 1 bird (181826).

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HANSEN, Dr. MERLE F., Lexington, Ky.:
Holotype of cestode from Lincoln,
Nebr. (180958).

Harsor, D. R., Auburn, Ala.: 6 plants
from Alabama (179840).

Harpy, Dr. D. Etmo, Ames, Iowa: 57
flies, including 1 holotype and 14
paratypes of 8 species and 42 para-
types of another species (180165) ; 4
flies, including type, allotype, and 2
paratypes (181563) ; 2 flies from Aus-
tralia (183168). (See also under
California Academy of Sciences. )

Harner, Jor, Nevada, Mo.: Pyritized
teeth preserved in part and counter-
part of a shark from the Pennsylva-
nian Cherokee shale formation,
Walker, Vernon County, Mo.
(182856).

HARPER, Dr. FRANCIS, Mount Holly,
N. J.: 29 plants from Keewatin
(182719).

Harry, ROBERT R.
University,
Museum.)

HartTMAN, Dr. Ore, Los Angeles, Calif. :
2 polychaete worms (180795).

HARVARD UNIVERSITY :

Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain,
Mass. : 2 plants from China (178857,
exchange) ; 3 grasses and 84 lichens
from the Fiji Islands (179779,
180309, exchange); 2,298 plants
from Fiji Islands collected by Dr.
A. C. Smith (180223, exchange) ; 1
plant (180488, exchange) ; 36 frag-
ments of South American plants
collected by Steyermark and Cuat-
recasas (180606) ; 411 plants from
Micronesia and 389 grasses from
Truk and Yap Islands, collected by
C. Wong (181163, 181829, exchange) ;
116 ferns from San José Island, Gulf
of Panama (182456) ; 2 fragments
of Philippine plants (182672) ; 19
fungi from Truk and Yap Islands
(182698, exchange).

Biological Laboratories, Cambridge,
Mass.: (Through William L.
Brown, Jr.) 7 ants representing 4
species (180372, exchange).

Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass.:
14 fragmentary plants (177560, ex-
change); 4 plants including 1 iso-
type (180381, 180487, exchange) ;
1 fern from Argentina (180592, ex-
change); 15 miscellaneous South
American plants (181490); 628
plants—412 Mexican specimens col-
lected by Dr. H. E. Moore, 100
Alaskan specimens collected by
Miss Edith Scamman, 58 South
American bromeliads, and 58
Argentine ferns (181603, ex-
change) ; 7 phanerogams from Peru
(182157, exchange).

(See under Stanford
Natural History

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Cambridge, Mass.: 15 mollusks
(181074, exchange) ; 5 beetles, all
paratypes (182890, exchange) ;
(through William J. Clench) ap-
proximately 5,550 specimens and
29 lots of miscellaneous mollusks
(179976, 180873, 181709, exchange) ;
27 paratypes of a snail from the
Marianas Islands (182618);
(through William L. Brown, Jr.)
1 ant (181069) ; 48 ants, including
cotypes of 9 species (181594, 182076,
exchange); (through Dr. P. J.
Darlington) 1 beetle from Jaront,
Cuba (181506) ; (through Dr. Elisa-
beth Deichmann) 1 alcyonarian
(182138); (through William C.
Schroeder) 1 fish collected off
southern Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 1948 (182327) ; 1 fish holotype
from Williamson Pass, Calif.
(182496, exchange).

Hasxins, C. P., New York, N. Y¥.: 34
AuStralian bulldog ants, including 7
species, and 8 chalcid parasites, in-
cluding 2 species (179966).

Hartat, Dr. Korora, Sendai, Japan: 1
Recent and 20 Tertiary echinoids
from Japan (182378); (through Dr.
Julia Gardner) 5 Permian brachio-
pods from Japan (182379).

HATSCHBACH, Dr. GeErRT, Curitiba, Pa-
rana, Brazil: 78 Brazilian plants
(181596, 182743).

HAvuKE, Harotp A. (See under U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau
of Entomology and Plant Quaran-
tine.)

Hawatl, UNIVERSITY oF, Honolulu, T.
H.: (Through Dr. Robert W. Hiatt)
3 lots of sponges (180055) ; (through
Dr. F. G. Holdaway) 57 flies (178003) ;
13 plants from Hawaii (180059, ex-
change).

Hawatt Boarp or AGRICULTURE AND
Forestry, Honolulu, T. H.: (Through
Vernon Brock) 60 fishes from John-
son Island, collected in May and July
1948 by Vernon Brock, J. Francis, and
J. Welsh (181028). ie Beri,

HaAwalt SuGAR PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION,
Honolulu, T. H.: (Through E. C.
Zimmerman) 23 Hymenoptera repre-
senting 14 genera, 3 of which are
paratypes (181567).

Hawk, Rosert M., Denver, Colo.: 4
specimens of jade from Long Creek
Jade mine, Lander, Wyo. (180983).

HEDGPETH, JOEL W., Port Aransas,
Tex.: 36 shrimps and 12 crabs
(179561) ; 33 marine mollusks from
Texas and Louisiana (179681); 7
marine invertebrates, including crab,
anomuran, and shrimp (181121).

ACCESSIONS

Heizer, Dr. Rosert F., Berkeley, Calif. :
Chipped artifacts and quarry reject-
age collected on surface at the
Borax Lake site near Clear Lake,
Lake County, Calif., in June 1944
(181507).

HELLER, HELEN WEST, New York, N. Y.:
35 wood engravings for special exhi-
bition during April 1949 (182385,
loan); 8 wood engravings: ‘“Base-
ball,” “Millenniums,” “Alabama Bio-

chemist,” “Companioned,” “Noc-
turne,” and “American Soil Tripytch:
‘Cotton Picking,’ ‘Reforestation,’

‘Corn Husking’ ” (182887).

HERMANN, Dr. F. J., Berwyn, Md.: 3
plants from California (180341); 1
plant from Guatemala (180440); 3
plants from Central America, includ-
ing isotypes and 3 photographs of
Central American plants (182881).

HERRERA, Prof. Josk, Santiago, Chile: 46
miscellaneous insects from Chile
(180190).

HERZENBERG, Dr. Rosert, Oruro, Bo-
livia: 7 creedite specimens from
Colquiri, Bolivia (180271, 180781).

HeEstTeER, J. P., Superior, Ariz.: 3 speci-
mens and 2 photographs of cacti
(180339).

Hevusi, Capt. JoHn S., Fredericksburg,
Va.: 3 marine invertebrates (180365).

HEWATT, Dr. WILLIs G., Forth Worth,
Tex.: 2 vials of marine diatoms
(182161).

HEYWARD, MAry, Baltimore, Md.: 35
land shells from Baltimore, Md.
(180771).

Hiatt, Dr. Rospert W.
versity of Hawaii.)

Hissen, Dr. FRANK C. (See under Uni-
versity of New Mexico.)

HILDEBRAND, Dr. SAMUEL F. (See under
Otis Barton and U. S. Department of
the yer aes Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice.

HILDRETH, Mrs. MarGaret S.
der Mrs. C. A. Rich.)

Hixz, THEODORE R., Washington, D. C.:
A collection (62 specimens) of black-
smith’s tools used by donor’s father,
Charles Monroe Hile (181802).

Hitt, Dr. Howarp R., Los Angeles,
Calif.: Approximately 400 land and
marine mollusks from western North
America and Hawaiian Islands
(183188, exchange).

_HINCKLEY, Prof. L. C., Alpine, Tex. : 137

_ plants from Texas, New Mexico, and
Arizona (180658).

Hinton, Dr. Howarp H., London, Eng-
land. (See under British Govern-
ment, British Museum (Natural His-
tory).)

HINTON, JAMES C., Saltillo, Mexico: 75
plants from Mexico (182016, 182947).

(See under Uni-

(See un-

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Hosss, Dr. Horton H., Jr., Charlottes-
ville, Va.: 3 type specimens of cray-
fishes (181360).

Hopeet, Lt. Gen. JoHn R.
Ju Whan Lee.)

Horr, Dr. C. CiLayton, Albuquerque,
N. Mex.: 6 ticks taken from a local
ground squirrel in New Mexico and 1
vial of roundworms (181122); ap-
proximately 10 ostracods and 3 micro-
scope slides (1822383).

HorFMAN, RicHarp L., Clifton Forge,
Va.: 291 amphibians and reptiles
from Virginia and North Carolina
180010) : 1 diplopod, holotype, from
Yaetake, Okinawa, collected by F. N.
Young on October 8, 1945 (181450).

Horstra CoLLeGe, Hempstead, Long Is-
land, N. Y.: (Through Prof. E. P.
Creaser) About 35 phyllopods
(179906).

Houpaway, Dr. F. G.
versity of Hawaii.)

HOotiis, V. P., St. Paul, Minn.: 1 photo-
micrograph of section of plant louse
and leaf (180555).

HO.LuIsTER, Hat L., and RoBert BH. MIN-
TURN, Corvallis, Oreg.: A 2-headed
garter snake from Port Angeles,
Wash., collected by Robert E. Min-
turn on September 6, 1948 (180402).

Houtm, Dr. A. (See under Zoologiska
Institutionen. )

HOLMBERG, ALLEN, Ithaca, N. Y.: 5 liz-
ards collected by donor in Virt Valley,
Peru, in April 1948 (180236).

Ho.ttHuis, Dr. L. B., Leiden, Nether-
lands: 10 shrimps (180665).

Hoover, Ropert, Berkeley, Calif.: 6
grasses from California (180091).

Horn, CHESTER K., Richmond, Calif.:
(Through Dr. D. H. Johnson) 1 sea-
snake collected by donor in June 1944
off Sarmi Point, north coast of Dutch
New Guinea (181798).

Horton, Bryson D. (deceased): Arti-
facts found in a cave 20 miles from
Morenci, Greenlee County, Ariz., in
1900, on loan since 1901 (182390).

Hosaka, Epwarp Y., Kamuela T. H.: 1
grass from Hawaii (181688) ; 1 grass
from New Caledonia (182999).

Hosea, Mrs. H. R., Washington, D. C.:
Bonnet made of tan cotton in early
19th-century style known as a
“calash” (181580).

HoTcHkKIss, NEIL. (See under U. S. De-
partment of the Interior, Fish and
Wildlife Service.)

Horttres, Dr. F. C., Grand Junction,
Colo.: 29 slides of aphids, including 4
holotypes (183008).

HoUSHOLDER, Vic H., Phoenix, Ariz.:
1 skull of a brown-eared bulbul
(182853).

Howe, Dr. D. F., Chula Vista, Calif. : 17
plants from California (181406).

(See under

(See under Uni-

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HUBBELL, Dre TT...
versity of Michigan.)

Hupricut, LEsLiz, Danville, Va.: Ap-
proximately 800 mollusks from Michi-
gan and Virginia (180389); about
150 land mollusks from Virginia
(182941).

HvucKkett, Dr. H. C., Long Island, N. Y.:
6 flies, including 3 allotypes and 3
types (182691).

HuFrrMaNn, Hart C., Pasadena, Calif. : 33
snails from Tillamook County, Oreg.
(181855).

HucHEs, Prof. R. CHester, Stillwater,
Okla.: 7 microscope slides bearing
cotype material of a new species of
tapeworm (182861).

Hug, Brig. Gen. Epcar E., Washington,
D. C.: Broken vessel (to be restored )
from the necropolis at Paestum, Italy
(181608, deposit).

Humes, Dr. ArTHuUR G., Boston, Mass. :
70 copepods, including types (180963).

Hum, Dr. Harotp J., Beaufort, N. C.:
1 crustacean (172364); approxi-
mately 47 crustaceans and 2 mol-
lusks (181786) ; 4 vials of amphipods
from Newfoundland and Florida

(See under Uni-

(182137).
HuMPHREY, FRED L., Reno, Nev. : 185 as-
sorted invertebrate fossils from

White Pine District, Nev. (1804381).

HuNceERForD, Dr. H. B., Lawrence,
Kans.: 126 bugs, including types
(177756).

Hunter, Byron, San Jose, Calif.: 1
hand-woven, double-weave, Jacquard
coverlet, grape pattern with giraffe
border (181280).

Hunter, Lt. Col. Groree W., 3d, San
Francisco, Calif.: Approximately 150
land mollusks from Shikoku Islands,
Japan, collected by Hisasho Abe
(183174). (See also under National
Military Hstablishment, Department
of the Army, Medical Department Re-
search and Graduate School.)

Hourp, Paut D. (See under University
of California. )

Hurtsurt, Dr. C. §., Jr., Cambridge,
Mass.: A specimen of parahilgardite
from Choctaw Salt Dome, Iberville
Parish, La. (181699, exchange).

HURLBURT, Commander H. S., Bethesda,
Md.: 84 pinned specimens and 104
slides of 6 species of mosquitoes, 3
of them new with holotypes, from
Ponape, Caroline Islands, collected by
donor (180558).

HutcuHins, Dr. Louis W. (See under
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu-
tion. )

Hype, F.. B., Chevy Chase, Md.: Hand-
woven blanket obtained by donor in
1912 at Wakarewarewa, near Ru-
taruea, North Island, New Zealand,

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from its former owner, the great-
great-granddaughter of a Maori chief
(180469).

IDAHO STATE COLLEGE, Pocatello, Idaho:
40 plants from Yellowstone Park
(188087, exchange).

Ine, C. L. (See under Weston Electri-
cal Instrument Corp.)

IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICUL-
TURE, Trinidad, West Indies:
(Through Dr. E. McC. Callan) 63
scorpions from Trinidad (179666).

IMPERIAL OIL, LIMITED, Calgary, Al-
berta: (Through Dr. Colin Crickmay)
2 Devonian brachipods from Alberta,
Canada (181168).

INDIA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY oF, Calcutta,
India: 13 specimens of ores from
‘India (179920, exchange).

INGERSON, Dr. Hart, Washington, D. C.:
50 echinoids, echinoid spines, and
other invertebrate fossils from the
Cretaceous of west Texas (181112).
(See also under J. B. Carson.)

IneLEes, Dr. Luoyp G., Fresno, Calif.: 2
flies (179559).

INico, Fretrx. (See under U. S. De-
partment of the Interior, Fish and
Wildlife Service.)

INNES, WILLIAM T., Philadelphia, Pa.:
1 fish from South America (181909).

INSTITUT DES RECHERCHES AGRONO-
MIQUES, Saigon, French Indo-China:
156 plants from Indo-China (182880).

INsTITuT Pasteur, Cayenne, French
Guiana: (Through Le Médecin Cap-
taine Camain R.) 25 flies and
mosquitoes, representing 22 species of
which 20 are new to the national col-
lections (180166).

INSTITUTE GEOBIOLOGICO LA SaAttx,
Canios, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil:
77 plants from Brazil (182996, ex-
change).

INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS,
Lima, Peru: 58 plants from Peru
(179838, 180095, transfer) ; 78 grasses
and 1 phanerogam from Peru (181246,
181947, transfer).

INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, Science Museum,
Kingston, Jamaica: (Through Mrs.
Amy Von der Porten) 14 ferns from
Jamaica (182088).

INSTITUTO DE Botranico, SHo Paulo,
Brazil: 9 plants (180311, 183084).
INSTITUTO DE BoTANICA DARWINION,
San Isidro, Argentina: 25 plants from

Argentina (181314).

INSTITUTO DE SANIDAD VEGETAL, Buenos
Aires, Argentina: 9 grasshoppers of
4 species from Argentina (180419) ;
(Through Dr. José Liebermann) 16
grasshoppers, comprising 6 species
from Argentina (179972), exchange).

InstTituTO Micurt Litto, Tucumfn,
Argentina: 439 grasses from Argen-
tina and Chile (179781, 179929). |

ACCESSIONS 07

nerite from Kelly Gulch, Custer
County, Idaho (1803895); lower
cheek tooth of a horse from tuff
between basalt layers, on north side
of Gable Mountain near White

Instituto RrgioMONTANO, Monterrey,
Nuevo Leén, Mexico: 103 plants from
Mexico (181404).

InTERIOR, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE:
Fish and Wildlife Service, Washing-

ton, D. C.: 458 pairs of baleen
blades from Japanese Antarctic
whaling expeditions in 1946—47 and
1947-48 (179601) ; 1,046 birds from
various parts of North America
(179826) ; 2 bird bones (180220) ;
2 sets of eggs from Georgia
(180590) ; 2 skeletons of trumpeter
swan (182079); 1,772 birds from
various parts of North America
(183081) ; 306 mammals (183185) ;
(through Dr. Raymond M. Gil-
more) 37 amphipods (stomach con-
tents discarded), 5 beaks of squids
and 8 ascarid nematodes from di-
gestive tract of sperm whale from
off Kureka, Calif. (179794); fish
bones from sperm whale stomach
taken by Dr. Gilmore 4 or 5 miles
west of Eureka, Calif., in 500
fathoms, August 30, 1947 (181496) ;
(through Dr. P. S. Galtsoff) 62
crustaceans, 2 fishes, 4 echinoderms,
and 14 coelenterates (179817);
(through Dr. Eugene W. Surber)
46 crustaceans (180060) ; (through
Dr. S. F. Hildebrand) 838 gobioid
fishes collected in Puerto Rico in
1945 by Donald S. Erdman
(180092) ; (through Dr. Oliver B.
Cope) 9 amphipods (180464) ;
(through F.. M. Uhler) 6 mollusks
(Cyrenoida sp.) from Dorchester
County, Md. (181345); 78 fresh-
water mollusks taken from stom-
achs of ducks, from Iowa, Mary-
land, and Ontario (183013);
(through Albert M. Day) 11 sponges
collected by Alfredo C. Abeledo and
Rizal D, Pangilinan in the area of
Mindoro Island, P. I. (182186);
(through Dr. Leslie W. Scatter-
good) 6 shrimps _ (182683);
(through Neil Hotchkiss) 28 moss-
es from Utah (182692); (through
Felix Inigo) 9 fishes from Fishery
Research Laboratory, Mayagiiez,
Puerto Rico (181693).

Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.:
1 fossil fish from the Permian
Phosphoria formation about 18
miles east of Fort Hall, Idaho
(179867) ; 3 thin sections of Foram-
inifera representing 4 genera and
24 specimens from Eocene of Africa
and Pennsylvanian of Texas and
Illinois (179984); (through Dr.
Harry S. Ladd) about 1,200 marine
mollusks from Caroline Islands,
collected by Charles G. Johnson
(180303) ; 1 tube of analyzed bran-

Bluffs, Benton County, Wash., col-
lected by Garald G. Parker and
Manuel G. Bonilla (180943); 266
specimens of trona, shortite, and
searlesite from mine shaft of the
Westvaco Chemical Corp. west of
Green River, Sweetwater County,
Wyo. (181047) ; 3 Devonian fossils
from Sawtooth Range, Mont., 23
Triassic brachiopods from Nevada,
1,000 Ordovician brachiopods and
other fossils, 50 Devonian and Mis-
sissippian plants, 1,000 Ozarkian
and Canadian cephalopods
(181142) ; 21 brachiopods and 30
graptolites from the Ordovician of
Clevenger Quadrangle, Tenn.
(181217) ; 71 specimens of helvite,
tactite, scheelite-bearing rocks, and
thin sections from Iron Mountain,
N. Mex. (181283); 1 block of
Genundewah limestone containing
fossil conodonts (181284); 3,400
types, figured specimens, and ex-
amples of fossils described in
manuscript entitled “The Larger
Invertebrate Fossils of the Wood-
bine Formation (Cenomanian) of
Texas” by Dr. Lloyd William
Stephenson (181898) ; 16 gastropods
from the Early Ordovician of Mis-
souri and Tennessee (181498) ; 29
miscellaneous foreign and Ameri-
ean Tertiary nautiloids studied by
Prof. A. K. Miller (181499); 150
types and figured specimens from
the Redwater shale (Upper Jur-
assic) of South Dakota collected
by Drs. R. W. Imlay and A. R.
Loeblich, Jr. (181694) ; 382 speci-
mens of conodonts collected by
Wilbert H. Hass, from central min-
eral region (Llano uplift), Texas
(182171) ; 6 fossils (182328); 25
Tertiary plants (1823382); 4 bra-
chiopods from the Mississippian
rocks of [Illinois (182377); 12
Upper Cretaceous invertebrate fos-
sils from Georgia collected by Wil-
liam A Rowell, Jr., Dr. Louis L.
Ray in charge of field work
(182685) ; 30 fossil insects, probably
of late Tertiary age, from Utah,
collected by Dr. J. Stewart Williams
(183695); 200 specimens of a
cephalopod genus from the Upper
Cretaceous of South Carolina,
North Carolina, New Jersey, South
Dakota, Iowa, and Montana
(182828); a series of 19 iron-ore
specimens from Alabama, Arizona,

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Arkansas, and other localities of
the United States (182857); 550
Paleozoic invertebrate fossils from
California, Montana, and Colorado
(182884); 26 Foraminifera from
Jurassic beds in the J. H. Kline No.
1 well southeast of Carpio, Ward
County, N. Dak. (182885) ; approxi-
mately 568 miscellaneous inverte-
brates from the Marianas Islands,
together with echinoderms, plants,
fishes, reptiles, mollusks, insects
(182918); (through Dr. John B.
Reeside, Jr.) 86 specimens includ-
ing mammalian forms, horse and
mastodon teeth, and fossil fishes,
collected from the Pliocene and
Pleistocene of Florida by EF. Stearns
MacNeil (179955) ; 2 specimens of
fossil vertebrates collected by L. A.
Thomas from Oligocene beds in
vicinity of Sage Creek, Beaverhead
County, Mont. (180689); 3 mosa-
saur specimens, remains of a turtle,
and 19 fish specimens collected by
Messrs. Crandell, Hensley, and
Simpson (180867); 1 lot of
Comanche material said to contain
Foraminifera from the east side
of East Etholen Knob southwest of
Etholen Station, Sierra Blanca
Quadrangle, Tex. (181111); Phy-
tosaur skeleton from the ‘Triassic
Chinle formation in the vicinity of
St. Johns, Ariz., collected by Guy
BE. Hazen, October 28, 1948
(181367) ; collection of 5 bison
bones, 1 camel bone, and a prairie-
dog jaw from Pleistocene deposits
in the City of Denver, and 1 lower
tooth of a horse from Madison
Valley, Mont. (181926); 2 horse
teeth collected by F. S. Jensen, July
14, 1948, in Valley County, Mont.
(182074) ;approximately 150
sharks’ teeth from the Upper
Cretaceous Hagle Ford shale and
Austin chalk of Grayson County,
Tex., collected in 1946 by Harland
R. Bergquist (182083); 150 Pale-
ozie invertebrate fossils collected
by John C. Maher in the eastern
foothills of the Front Range, Colo.
(182610); (through Smithsonian
Institution, Bureau of American
Ethnology) skull of Eskimo, from
bank of Utukok River, near mouth
of Elusive Creek, Alaska (about
lat. 69°30’ N., long. 160° W.), ac-
companied by one lot of archeo-
logical material (180564) ; (through
Drs. William T. Pecora and T. S.
Lovering) 10 tinticite specimens
from the ‘Tintic District, Utah
(180894); (through Dr. Josiah

Bridge) 3 lots of fossil Foram-
inifera from the Marianas Islands,
Southwest Pacific (181065) ;
(through Dr. C. Wythe Cooke) 11
specimens and 3 plaster casts of
echinoids from the Cretaceous of
Peru (181008) ; (through Dr. James
Steele Williams) 1 specimen of
Helicoprion and associated teeth,
collected by Dr. M. I. Goldman from
Bennett’s Ranch, Dagget County,
Utah (181119); 7 fossil fishes
(182078) ; (through Dr. Roland W.
Brown) 6 Tertiary plant fossils
from Japan (181169) ; (through Dr.
BH. T. McKnight) 3 Ordovician
graptolites from Stevens County,
Wash. (181170); (through M. G.
White) 22 fishes from mouth of
Sunaghun Creek on Porcupine
River at Boundary, Alaska-Yukon,
collected by donor, August 1948
(181441); (through F. Stearns
MacNeil) about 70 marine mollusks
from Okinawa (182902) ; (through
D. E. Flint) 14 marine and land
mollusks from Okinawa (182903) ;
(through Dr. W. P. Woodring) 25
land mollusks from Panama
(182904).

National Park Service: 246 plants

from Tupelo, Miss. (179937,
181403); foot bones and other
remains of Pleistocene ground sloth
from the Carlsbad Caverns, Carls-
bad, N. Mex. (178746) ; 22 lichens
from Tulelake, Calif. (180310); 5
lichens from Glacier County, Mont.
(180833) ; 3 lichens from Yosemite
National Park, Calif. (180835); 3
lichens from the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, Gatlin-
burg, Tenn. (180842); 26 plants
from Maryland (180891) ; 1 lichen
from Petrified Forest National
Monument, Holbrook, Ariz,
(181234); 498 plants from the
Mammoth Cave National Park, Ky.
(1813800, 181628); 22 plants from
Shenandoah National Park, Luray,
Va. (181409) ; 68 plants from Campe
Verde, Ariz. (182344); 1 lichen
from Aztec, N. Mex. (183083) ;
(through John L. Cotter 16 fresh-
water mollusks from Rynum Vil-
lage site, near Houston, Miss.
(180181).

Iowa, UNIVERSITY OF, Iowa City, Iowa:
1 grass from Canal Zone (181801).
Iowa STATE COLLEGE, Ames, Iowa: 39
grasses from Alaska (181751); 206
plants from Alaska and British Co-
lumbia (1828238, exchange).

Irvine, F. N., Washington, D. C.: 2 ferns
(182701).

ACCESSIONS

IRVING, Dr. LAURENCE. (See under Na-
tional Military Establishment, De-
partment of the Navy, Office of Naval
Research.)

Isaacs, Mrs. WILLARD L., Summit, N. J.:
One of the first incandescent lamps
made by Thomas A. Edison incorpo-
rating a carbonized bamboo filament,
about 1880 (182259).

ISELEY, Dr. DuANnE, Ames, Iowa:
plants (182408, exchange).

Istporo, Donato G., Virac, Catanduanes,
Philippine Islands: 89 land and fresh-
water shells from Catanduanes
(142274).

Ives, Prof. J. D. (See under Carson-
Newman College.)

JACOBSON, Morris K., Rockaway, N. Y.:
2 paratypes of a land mollusk from
Cuba (180321).

JAMES, Dr. MAURICE T., Pullman, Wash.:
6 flies, 4 species, 1 of which is repre-
sented by 2 paratypes (179488).
also under British Government, Com-

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monmwealth Institute of Entomology.)

JAMESON, Dr. E. W. (See under Uni-
versity of California.)

JANSEN, D. C. (See under Shanghai
Museum. )

JARDIM BOTANICO, Rio de Janeiro, Bra-
zil: 21 Brazilian ferns (181105, ex-
change. )

JARDIN BotAnico, Asunci6n, Paraguay:
58 grasses from Paraguay (183000).

JARVIS, WILLIAM S., Takoma Park, Md.:
Smallearthenware bowl from
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico (181850).

JEFFRIES, FRANK L., Washington, D. C.:
140 land and fresh-water mollusks
from North America (182943).

JELLISON, Dr. W. L., Hamilton, Mont.:

Approximately 40 beeties collected by

donor in Montana (180467). (See
also under Federal Security Agency,
U. S. Public Health Service.)

JIMENEZ, Dr. Jos& pE Js., Santiago, Do-
minican Republic: 110 plants from
Dominican Republic (181385).

JOHNSON, Dr.D.H. (See under Chester
K. Horn.)

JOHNSON, Dr. GrorGe R., Calgary, Al-
berta: 1 fungus from Canada
(180971).

JOHNSON, KENNETH S.
Ansco. )

JOHNSTON, FRANCIS NEWLANDS, Chevy
Chase, Md.: 81 Triassic ammonites
and nautiloids from Nevada (181808).

(See under

(See also under Dr. Friedrich
Trauth.)
JOHNSTON. FRANCIS NEWLANDS, Chevy

Chase, Md., and ABEL RANSON, Calva-

dos, France: 50 invertebrate fossils

from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of
- France (180766).

(See |-

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Jonres, ALLIE L., Jr., Newton, Ala.: 1
mollusk from Newton (183014).

Jones, Mrs. L. P., Sierra Blanca, Tex.:
(Through J. D. Boone and Dr. C.
Wythe Cooke) 2 Cretaceous echinoids
from 1144 miles north of Round Top
Mountain, Triple Hill Quadrangle,
Hudspeth County, Tex. (180484).

JONES, PERCY, Washington, D. C.: 12
land and marine shells from Morotai,
Netherlands East Indies, and Aruba,
Netherlands West Indies (181852).

Joy, Mrs. RepMonp, Cambridge, Mass. :
113 plants from vicinity of Washing-
ton, D. C. (180090).

JUNGE, CARLOS, Concepcién, Chile: 11
marine mollusks from Chile ea

KAINEN, Jacoz, Washington, D. C.:
serigraph, “Snowfall,” by TE,
printed in 380 colors in the pioneer
period 1989 (180104).

KAISER, PuHin, Argonia, Kans.:
(Through Arthur L. Bowsher) 2
crystals of vesuvianite from Siskiyou
and Tulare Counties, Calif. (181803).

KANSAS, UNIVERSITY oF, Lawrence,
Kans.: 4 plants from Kansas
(181410); (through Dr. R. H.
Beamer) 4 grasshoppers (175597) ;
12 bugs, 11 paratypes (180556,
180950).

Kapur, A. P., London, England: 40
named beetles, representing 11 species
in 8 genera, all from India (177874).

Kartovic, JoHN K., Benton Harbor,
Mich. : 9 insects (178661).

KarTMAN, Dr. Leo, Jr., Honolulu,
Hawaii: 5 slides of fleas of a species
new to the Museum’s collection
(180129).

Kays, Frank B., Arlington, Va.: 1
Marcy’s Sciopticon Magic Lantern
(J. Marey Patents—April 28, 1868,
and July 6, 1869) and 5 glass lantern
slides of various subjects (182263).

Kerecan, Lt. H. L. (See under National
Military Establishment, Department
of the Army, Armed Services Institute
of Pathology.)

Keren, Dr. Myra.
University. )

KELLy, GrorGE, Solomons, Md.: 3 bottles
of marine diatom specimens (182160).

Kemper, Roy H., San Bernardino,
Calif. : 1 automobile-theft signal made
by Security Manufacturing Co., Los
Angeles, Calif., patented August 25,
1914 (182260).

KENNISON, H., Minneapolis, Minn.:
16th-century glazed terra-cotta roof
tile obtained by donor’s father, W. F.
Kennison, from the house of Don
Diego Columbus at Ciudad Trujillo,
Dominican Republic (180375).

(See under Stanford

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Kiztr, B. P., Washington, D. C.: 285
plants collected by the late Guillermo
Klug in Peru (181987); 89 plants
from southeastern Virginia (183026).

Kittz, B. F., Barksdale Field, La.: 4
plants from Arizona (180399).

Kine, Dr. Ratepo H., Wichita Falls,
Tex.: (Through Dr. A. K. Miller) 3
type ammonoids from the Finis shale
of north-central Texas (182831).

KINNARD, WoLcorr. (See under Kin-
nard Co.)

KInNARD Co., Milwaukee, Wis.:
(Through Wolcott Kinnard) 1 Spot-
O-Matic enlarging meter made by
donor (180027).

Kirsy, Prof. Harotp. (See under Uni-
versity of California.)

Kirn, ALsert J., Somerset, Tex.: 27
fresh-water mussels from Texas
(180790).

KissiterF, M. Z., Philadelphia, Pa.: A
collection of 18 minerals consisting
of ludlamite, epidesmine, clinochlore,
etc., from New Hampshire, Pennsyl-
vania, and Canada (182168, ex-
change).

KLAPPERICH, Dr. HANS, Bonn, Germany:
119 beetles, representing 36 species
and subspecies mostly new to the Mu-
seum’s collection, and 22 undeter-
mined specimens (182613, exchange).

Knicut, Dr. J. Brookes. (See under
Daniel Koivro.)

Know es, Greorce M., South Miami,
Fla.: A collection of lizards from
Cuba and Florida, collected in 1948
(182009).

Knowuton, Dr. G. F. (See under Utah
State Agricultural College.)

Knutt, Prof. J. N. (See under Ohio
State University. )

KNUTSEN, WILLIe, Rockport, Mass.:
(Through Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr.)
Eskimo artifacts, mostly of Dorset
type, from Nain, Labrador, and Baffin
Island, Canada (183098).

Kocu, H. J., Johannesburg, South
Africa: 7 rare deep-water marine
mollusks from South Africa (180040).

Koc, F. J., Alexandria, Wa.: 1 direct-
current electric motor manufactured
about 1900 (181979).

Kotvro, DANIEL, Sarasota, Fla.:
(Through Dr. J. Brookes Knight) 23
marine mollusks from Longboat Key,
Fla. (182939).

KoMAREK, EH. V., Thomasville, Ga.: 1 in-
sect collected on the dunes east of
Albany, Ga. (180528).

Korn, Mrs. ArtHur, Hoboken, N. J.: 8
specimens of photographic wireless
transmission by the Arthur Korn
process and 1 sketch of Dr. Korn, the
inventor (183161).

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Krane, E. W., Washington, D. C.: 1
young mockingbird (179861).

Krauss, N. L. H., Honolulu, Hawaii:
Approximately 820 miscellaneous in-
sects and 1 isopod collected in Malaya
and Hong Kong (182316); 226 in-
sects, mostly from Panama (180693).

Krircer, H. W., Washington, D. C.: 2
human figurine wood carvings from
the Bush Negroes of Surinam
(183167).

KriTzLeR, Henry, Marineland, Fia.:
Skeleton and complete fetus of pigmy
sperm whale skeleton beached near
Marineland, Fla. (180854).

Krupsaw, N., Washington, D. C.: 1
European peacock butterfly found in
a drawer of a chest imported from
Haslemere 20 miles from London,
England (181561).

KryaGeEr, Dr. J. P., Flintinge, Denmark:
About 206 beetles in stages from pupa
to adult, representing 11 species, from
Denmark (179878).

KUHNELT, Dr. WILHELM, Wien, Aus-
tria: Approximately 500 land and
fresh-water mollusks from central
Kurope (183171, exchange).

KumM, Dr. HENry W., Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil: 1 fox, 1 raccoon, 1 coati-
mundi, 5 armadillos from Minas
Gerais, 1 agouti from Rio de Janeiro,
and 1 agouti from Goyaz, all Brazil
(180680). (See also under Rocke-
feller Foundation. )

KuscHEL, P. GuILLERMO, Santiago,
Chile: 14 beetles (181117, exchange).

KyusHvu UNIversity, Fukuoka, Japan:
(Through Dr. Keizo Yasumatsu) 62
ants, representing 14 species, 4 bees
and wasps, 3 of which are paratypes
(180215, exchange).

Lacasse, Maj. Water J., San Fran-
cisco, Calif.: 512 mosquitoes includ-
ing 237 adults of 26 species (2 syn-
types) and 275 larvae of 29 species,
all from Japan and Korea (179964) ;
5 insects (mosquito material)
(182174).

Lacey, LIONEL, New Rochelle, N. Y.: 469
beetles (181285).

Lapp, Dr. Harry 8. (See under Depart-
ment of the Interior, Geological Sur-
vey.)

LAENEN, J., La Chiffu, Algeria: 5 bird-
skins from Algeria (180929).

LANGE, Dr. W. Harry, Davis, Calif. : 86
land mollusks from Saipan Island,
Marianas (179980).

LANGFORD, DANIEL B., Honolulu, Ha-
waii: About 700 miscellaneous in-
sects from Ailinglapalap Atoll, Mar-
shall Islands, November 10—26, 1948
(181566).

LANGMAN, Ipa K., Mexico, D. F.: 41
phanerogams from Mexico (182493).

ACCESSIONS

La Rivers, Dr. Ins, Reno, Nev.: 1 para-
type and two topotype insects from
Nevada (181848); 2 paratypes of
aquatic bugs (182893).

LARKIN, Dr. P. A., Vancouver, British
Columbia: 3 mysids from Lakelse
Lake, British Columbia (182308).

LasxowiTz, I. B., Brooklyn, N. Y.:
Model of a balanced variable deliv-
ery pump or blower of donor’s inven-
tion (183155).

LatH4aM, Roy, Long Island, N. ¥.: 1
lichen from Long Island (1813832) ;
12 amphipods and 5 parasitic worms
(182348) ; 1 starfish (182376) ; 16 in-
sects from Long Island (182677).

LaTHAM, Dr. V. A., Chicago, Iil.: 2 dia-
toms from Utah (?) and California
(182162).

Laupon, Dr. R. L., Madison, Wis., and
AgtHourR L. BowsHER, Washington,
D. C.: 8 fossil erinoids (180230).

LAYBOURNE, H. G. (See under Ellis
Crouch.)

LEAKEY, Dr. L. S. B.
don Museum.)

LEANzA, Dr. A. F. (See under Museo de
la Plata.)

Lrr, Haroxp, Seattle, Wash.: Prints of
19 drawings of west coast watercraft
designed by donor, 1900 to 1920
(181002, purchase).

Lez, Ju WHAN, Seoul, Korea: (Through
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge) 1 stone mu-
sical instrument, a kyung, made in
Korea in A. D. 1484 (179988).

LreecH, A. Y., Jr. (See under U. S.
Ordnance Co.)

LEECH, GORDON, Washington, D. C.:
(Through C. R. Aschemeier) 3 bear
skulls collected in Jackson, Wis., No-
vember 2, 1948 (181287).

LeecH, HueH B. (See under Cali-
fornia Academy of Sciences.)

Leite, Father J. Evuarenio, Nova Fri-
burgo, Brazil: 37 plants from Brazil
(180052, 182492) ; 14 Brazilian plants
(181647, exchange and gift).

LENpON, ALAN, Adelaide, South Aus-
tralia: 1 Naretha parrot from Aus-
tralia (182235).

Lré6n, Brother, Vedado-Habana, Cuba:
30 phanerogams (181974, exchange).

LronaARDI, Mopresto, Trona, Calif.: 32

(See under Coryn-

hanksite specimens from Searles
Lake, Calif. (179871, exchange).

Lesser, Rup1, Washington, D. C.:
“Girl,” an etching, and “Ships and
Harbor,” a drypoint, by donor
(181067).

Lewis, KritH. (See under Eastman
Kodak Co.)

LEWTON, Dr. FREDERICK L., Winter Park,
Fla.: Campaign medal, McKinley and
Hobart (181068).

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Leyva, Cartos J., Oaxaca, Mexico: 4
plants from Mexico (182455).

LisRABY OF ConaREss, Washington D. C.:
1 lichen from New Zealand collected
by Mrs. Louise McDanell Browne
(180979) ; collection of 1,048 pieces
of miscellaneous unidentified “not-
geld” of Germany issued during the
period of World War I—679 paper
notes, 360 metal tokens, and 9 porce-
lain tokens (181560).

LIEBERMANN, Dr. Jos&. (See under
Instituto de Sanidad Vegetal.)

LILLIE, Mrs. RatpH D., Chevy Chase,
Md.: White cotton nightgown with
trimmed collar of period of 1895
(181310).

LiInDE Ariz Propvucts Co., New York,
N. Y.: (Through J. J. Murphy) 1 syn-
thetic star sapphire and 1 synthetic
star ruby (1823881).

LINDENSCHMIDT, Mary JEAN, Ann Arbor,
Mich.: 6 miscroscope slides repre-
senting holotype of a sponge (182916).

LITTLE, ALFRED E., Alexandria, Va.:
18th or 19th century miniature bar-
rel organ made in Switzerland and
long in the possession of the Revere
family of Boston, Mass. (180695).

LittLe, Dr. Expert L., Jr., Arlington,
Va.: 15 plants from Guanajuato,
Mexico (180737).

LivinasTon, Col. Joun J., Fort Belvoir,
Va.: A specimen of barium-muscovite
(cellacherite) from Franklin, N. J.
(182497, exchange).

Liano, Dr. Gerorce A., Washington,
D. C.: 150 lichens from Panama and
Canal Zone (181686).

LOEBLICH, Dr. ALFRED R., Jr.
der Dr. G. A. Cooper.)

LoEBLICH, Mrs. ALFRED R., Jr., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 261 type and figured
specimens of Lower Cretaceous
Foraminifera from the Walnut for-
mation of Texas and Oklahoma
(179876).

LoeBLIcH, Dr. and Mrs. ALFrep R., Jr.,
Washington, D. C.: Approximately
2,000 invertebrate specimens from the
Ordovician and Silurian of Oklahoma
and 10 samples of Lower Cretaceous
shales from microfossils (180678).

Lonpon ScHooL OF HYGIENE AND TrROP-
IcAL Mepicing, London, England:
(Through Dr. P. A. Buxton) 37 slides
of mites (180691).

Long, Mrs. BH. G., Baltimore, Md: Sew-
ing cabinet made in 1857 of hand-
tooled and joined hardwood, provided
with 12 fitted compartments and
equipped with the tools of stitchery
(180924).

Loomys, H. F.., Coconut Grove, Fla.: 5
millipeds, including 3 paratypes
(181304).

(See un-

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Looser, Dr. GUALTERIO, Santiago, Chile:
4 plants from Chile (180338, 182318).

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, Baton
Rouge, La.: 57 plants from Mexico
(181137, exchange) ; 4 birds (181592,
exchange); (through Dr. Lewis H.
Flint) 1 plant from Louisiana
(181466, exchange).

Lovertne, Dr. T. S. (See under U. S.
Department of the Interior, Geologi-
cal Survey.)

Lower, Grorce G., Westtown, Pa.: 3
copepods and 1 cephalopod (182452).

Lowry, Mrs. Mary Dupiey, Washing-
ton, D. C.: 18 ethnological specimens
from Island of Meli, New Hebrides, 1

Maori stone-ax blade from New Zea- |

land, 4 necklaces from Cook Islands,
and collection of mollusks from New
Hebrides collected during 1942-43 by
donor (180560).

Lunpett, Dr. C. L. (See under South-
ern Methodist University.)

Lunz, G. Rosert, Jr.. Wadmalaw Island, |

S. C.: 1 shrimp (182451).

LYMAN, Frank B., Lantana, Fla.:
Collection of marine organisms com-
prising crabs, fishes, mollusks, and
echinoderms (178541); 1 mollusk

from Molasses Reef, Fla. (180198) ; 1)

hermit crab and mollusk eggs
(180353) ; 8 marine invertebrates and
specimens of algae, mollusks, echino-
derms (180457); (through F. M.
Bayer) 7 lots of marine mollusks
from Florida and Puerto Rico
(180660).

Lyncu, Raymonp M., Alexandria, Va.: {|

12 amphipods (181296).
Lynn, Mrs. Dora M., Cleveland, Ohio:
76 plants from Ohio (181216).

Lyon County SEn1or HicgH SCHOOL, |.
Kuttawa, Ky.: (Through Dr. Thomas }

N. McCoy) 1 jumping mouse from
Lyon County, Ky. (182144). |
Lyons, S. C. (See under Georgia Kao-

lin Co.)

Maa, Dr. Ts1na-cHAo, Taipeh, Taiwan,
China: 14 insects including 9 para-
types (181756, exchange).

MacpowEtt, Mrs. Murret, Brooklyn,
N. Y.: Print of spodogram showing
the distribution of mineral ash in
the rat nephron following the ad-
ministration of calciferol, exhibited
in the black-and-white division of
First International Photography-in-
Science Competition (180690).

MacGinitiz, Prof. and Mrs. G. E., Point
Barrow, Alaska: Approximately 760
marine invertebrates together with
mollusks, echinoderms, fishes, and
insects from California and Mexico
(182767). (See also under National
Military Establishment. Department

MARKS, ELIZABETH N.

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

of the Navy, Office of Naval Re-
search.)

MacKay, RateH E., Seattle, Wash.: A
specimen of geocronite from the
Livingston mine, Custer County,
Idaho (181928, exchange).

MACMILLAN, GorpDoN K. (See under
Carnegie Museum. )

MAcNEIL, F. STEARNS. (See under U. S.
Department of the Interior, Geologi-
cal Survey.)

MALotTr, CHARLES K., Los Angeles,
Calif.: Master vibrator made by the
K-W Ignition Co., Cleveland, Ohio
(179866).

MANN, Dr. GUILLERMO, Santiago, Chile:
5 lots of helminths from Chile and
South Georgia in the Antarctic
(182033).

MANSFIELD, Lt. G. S., Atascadero, Calif. :
Approximately 1,780 miscellaneous
marine invertebrates together with
fishes, mollusks, echinoderms, reptiles,
insects, and Koraminifera, collected
in California, Hawaii, and other
Pacific Islands (182729).

Maresize, Dr. JoHn P., Washington,
D. C.: 11 specimens of gypsum from
Herne Bay, England (180741). (See
also under Prof. T. C. Phemister.)

Marcuzzi, Dr. G., Caracas, Venezuela:
200 land and fresh-water mollusks
from Venezuela (180965).

MARIE CAROLINE, Sister, Key West,
Kla.: 1 polychaete worm (181127).
Marco, Boris, New York, N. Y.: 27
cellocuts by donor lent for special ex-
hibition during October 1948 (180554,
loan); “Magnetic Maze,” a cellocut

by donor (181066). ;

MARIANAS, COMMANDER OF. (See under
National Military Establishment, De-
partment of the Navy, Bureau of Med-
icine and Surgery.)

MARINER'S MusrtumM, Newport News,
Va.: 1 specimen of Devonian Hamil-
ton sandstone containing numerous
impressions of invertebrate fossils
(180855).

(See under Uni-
versity of Queensland.)

Maruatt, Mrs. C. L. (See under Helen
Louise Sargent. )

MARSHALL, ERNEST B., Laurel, Md.: 14
muskrat and 8 raccoon skulls from
Laurel (179789) ; skulls of 1 gray fox,
4 opossums, 2 minks, and 2 muskrats
from Laurel (182002).

MARYLAND, STATE OF, Department of Re-
search and Education, Solomons, Md. :
(Through Dr. R. V. Truitt) 1 bryo-
zoan (180796).

MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Balti-
more, Md.: (Through Paul S. Wat-
son) 49 plants from Maryland
(179833).

ACCESSIONS

MASONITE CORPORATION, Chicago, Ill. : 13
specimens, 15 photographs, and 1 flow
sheet showing the production and uses
of Masonite hardboard (183154).

MaArTEER, Prof. WARREN D., Golden, Colo. :
(Through Harold L. Williams) 4
specimens of aragonite from 5 miles
southwest of the J. A. Ranch House
near the mouth of Palo Duro Canyon,
south of Clarendon, Tex. (181805).

MATTHES, Dr. H. C., Bay City, Tex.: 52
fleas, 7 species, collected in Panama
(180881) ; 100 slides of fieas from
Texas (182712).

MATTHEWS, RANSOM, Sierra Madre,
Calif.: National magneto for a 4-
eylinder gasoline engine (179874) ;
Bosch low-tension magneto type ARH,
patented 1905 and 1908 (182702).

Matrox, Dr. N. T., Oxford, Ohio: 6 lots
of marine mollusks from Puerto Rico
(180876) ; approximately 16 phyllo-
pods, including 1 holotype and the
rest paratypes (1816381).

May, J. F., Colorado Springs, Colo.: 56
insects (1821738, exchange).

McAREAVEY, Father JoHn, Pymble, New
South Wales: 500 ants, representing
48 forms (180292, exchange).

McCaw _ey, W.N. (See under HE. I. du
Pont de Nemours & Co.)

McCray, Prof. A. T., Davis, Calif.: 80
beetles, representing 8 species
(182365).

McCuure, Dr. F. A., Washington, D. C.:
8 Guatemalan plants (183091).

McConngEL, Mary HE., Kent, Wash.:
Green plaid taffeta dress, period 1850-
1860, black quilted petticoat, period
1840, mourning shawl and 2 veils, pe-
riod of the Civil War (182662).

McCoy, Dr. THomas N., Kuttawa, Ky.:
1 fern from Kentucky (182699). (See
also under Lyon County Senior High
School.)

McCrapy, Dr. Epwagp, Sewanee, Tenn. :
Partial skeleton of a fossil jaguar
found in Little Salt River Cave,
Franklin County, Tenn. in 1944
(1808938).

McCuttocH, Dr. IRENE. (See under
University of Southern California,
Allan Hancock Foundation.)

McGawa, Y. J., Ann Arbor, Mich.: 106
insects (180708).

McGinty, Tuomas L., Boynton Beach,
Fla.: 1 mollusk from Lake Worth,
Fla. (181454, exchange); approxi-
mately 50 Donagr clams from Texas
(181585) ; 147 lots, 900 specimens, in-
eluding 10 lots of paratypes, of ma-
rine mollusks from Florida and the
Bahamas (182898, exchange).

McKniaut, Dr. EH. T. (See under U. 8S.
Department of the Interior, Geologi-
cal Survey.)

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McLANE, WILLIAM M., Welaka, Fla.:
Approximately 1386 crustaceans
(181361) ; 10 shrimps and 1 isopod
(181086, 181952).

McMecuHavy, A. E., Joplin, Mo.: 1 Premo
“A” stereoscopic camera with 3 plate
hoiders (182275).

McMiILiin, ALVIN R., Waterloo, Iowa:
“Zulu” pin-firing single shotgun
(182513).

MEAD, Mrs. Lovis B., Cross River, N. Y.:
Rifle carried in the inaugural parade
of President Abraham Lincoln, and a
revolver, compass, bayonet, blanket,
and lithograph of Civil War period
and 2 documents (182172).

MeEeM, Mrs. Harry G., Washington,
D. C.: Miscellaneous household linens,
1 embroidered lace piece, lady’s lin-
gerie set of middle of 19th century,
lady’s lingerie set of 1918, two dresses
of 1920 period, and 1 pair of shoes—
19 specimens (182611).

Menrine, A. L., Hyattsville, Md.: 33
fresh- and brackish-water snails from
New Jersey (180415).

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, Melbourne,
Victoria: (Through Dr. Curt Teich-
ert) 21 Ordovician and Silurian
graptolites from Australia (181502,
exchange).

MENzIES, Ropert J., Dillon Beach,
Marin County, Calif.: 18 types of
isopods (180514); 1 amphipod and
10 isopods (180962). (See also under
College of the Pacific.)

METROPOLITAN CAMERA CLUB CoUNCIL,
Inc., New York, N. Y.: (Through
Mildred B. Seales) 89 pictorial photo-
graphs, comprising the Twelfth An-
nual Travel Salon of donor, for spe-
cial exhibition during August 1948
(180039, loan).

Meyer, Rev. F. D., Croom, Md.:1 gordiid
worm from Croom (182619).

Meyer, Prof. Marvin C., Orono, Maine:
2 copepods (181630).

Mi1aMI, UNIVERSITY oF, Marine Labora-
tory, Miami, Fla.: (Through F. M.
Bayer) 12 marine invertebrates
(179594) ; (through J. Q. Tierney) 20
aleyonarians from Gulf of Mexico
(182008).

MICHENER, Dr. C. D., Lawrence, Kans.:
8 insects, 7 of which are paratypes
(183164, exchange).

MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY oF, Ann Arbor,
Mich. : 5 plants from Southern United
States (181388, exchange) ; 13 grasses
from Canada (181540); 268 algae
from Java and the Philippines
(181650, exchange) ; 355 plants from
Great Bear Lake (182254, exchange) ;
(through Dr. Reeve M. Bailey) 4 topo-
types of darter from Wolf Creek,

104

2.5 miles west of Pleasant View,
Whitley County, Ky. (181364, ex-
change) ; (through Dr. T. H. Hubbell)
2 wasps from Florida and Mexico

(181849).

MILAN, FrepertckK A., Fairbanks,
Alaska : 20 phanerogams from Alaska
(180940).

Miititer, Dr. A. K. (See under Dr.

Ralph H. King.)

Mitter, Cart F., Alexandria, Va.: Dec-
orated belt from Goodenough Island,
Melanesia (180491). (See also under
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of

American Ethnology, River Basin
Surveys.)
MILLER, GERRIT S., Jr., Washington,

D. C.: 1 bat, 137 plants, and 2 snakes
collected near Little Switzerland, N.
C. (180788).

MILLER, Harry Epwarp, Stratford,
Conn.: 1 specimen of sphalerite from
Edwards, St. Lawrence County, N. Y.
(181889).

MILLER, JAMES R., Brighton, Mass.: Ap-
proximately 100 deep-sea mollusks
from south of Newfoundland
(182616) ; 284 starfishes (183001).

MILLER, JouHN H. (See under Weston
Electrical Instrument Corp.)

MILLINGER, W.A. F., Los Angeles, Calif. :
A small model of a push plate, op-
posed piston, barrel-type engine de-
signed by Frederick F. Brush about
1941 (181670).

MINISTERIO DE AGRICULTURA, Buenos
Aires, Argentina: 3 plants from Ar-
gentina (181401).

MINISTERIO DE LA ECONOMiA NACIONAL,
Bogota, Colombia: 5 solanaceous
plants (182637).

MINNESOTA, UNIVERSITY or, Minneapolis,
Minn.: 64 Minnesota plants (181687,
exchange).

Minoprio, Dr. Jos& Luis, Mendoza,
Argentina: Skin of a pichiciego from
Argentina and reel of moving-picture
film of this animal (182337).

MINTURN, Ropert BE. (See under Hal
L. Hollister.)

MIRACLE, JAMES V., Culver, Ind.: 10
phanerogams from Virginia (180892).

MIssourI BoTANICAL GARDEN, St. Louis,
Mo.: 47 plants from Panama (180327,
181328, exchange) ; 25 plants (180441,
181140, exchange); 93 plants from
Panama (181139, 181690, 181691,
182397, 182997) ; 166 Colombian plants
collected by Paul Allen (181689) ;
65 grasses from Missouri (181720,
181874) ; 17 grasses and 6 plants from
Mexico (182132, 182765).

Mour, Dr. Cart, Atlanta, Ga.: 1 pocket
mouse (180176).

Mone, Dr. JoHN L., Los Angeles, Calif. :
Approximately 345 amphipods from

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

California and Puget Sound
(182053) ; approximately 1,503 marine
invertebrates (180284, 181027).
Mo3nar, GEORGE, Diablo Heights, Canal
Zone: 1 piece of fossil wood from
Barro Colorado Island (181754).

Montana Strate Conlecrk, Bozeman,
Mont.: 1 grass from Montana
(182930).

Moore, Dr. Dwicut M., Fayetteville,
Ark.: 1 fern from Arkansas (181245).

MoorkE, ETHELBERT ALLEN, New Britain,
Conn.: A Bryant Celestial Indicator
(orrery), 1870 (1838058).

Moore, RaymMonp G., Washington,
D. C.: 6 wooden-block planes for
sash, molding, and tongue-and-groove
cutting (182877).

Moors, Dr. Ritey D., Washington, D. C.
(See under Dr. C. O. Goodpasture. )

MOOREHEAD, WARREN K. (deceased): 3
problematical archeological objects
from Xenia (?), Ohio (180232).

MoRAN, JACK, Washington, D. C.: 1
specimen of trilobite from Middle
Devonian near Berkeley Springs,
W.Va. (180487).

Morris, C. W., Arlington, Va.: Portion
of skull of walrus, dredged in 20
fathoms off Killdevil Hill, N. C., in
March 1948 (180549).

Morrison, B. Y., Takoma Park, Md.: 20
insects (181044).

MountTAINnN FuEL Suprry Co., Rock
Springs, Wyo.: (Through M. M. Fid-
lar) 2 specimens of a Cambrian trilo-
bite from a deep well in Emery
County, Utah (182576).

MUuESEBECK, C. F. W. (See under U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau
of Entomology and Plant Quaran-
tine. )

Moutcay, Rev. Wiiti1AM T., Nashville,
Tenn.: Collection of 8 ethnological
specimens obtained from the Baluba
of the Lubilanshi River Valley, Bel-
gian Congo, Africa, by donor while a
missionary among them, also 10 coins
from the Belgian Congo collected by
donor (179819).

Mutter, Dr. SIEMON WILLIAM. (See
under Stanford University.)

Mounpineer, Prof. F. G., Geneva, N. Y.:
1 insect from New York (1823802).

Muwn6z, Dr. Cartos, Santiago, Chile: 31
photographs of plants, type specimens
of Vicia, in the Museo Nacional, San-
tiago (180544). (See also under
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural.)

Monro, Dr. H. K., Pretoria, Union of
South Africa: 1 fly (1783850, ex-
change).

Munro, J. A., Okanagan Landing, Brit-
ish Columbia: 14 mollusks from Brit-
ish Columbia (180360).

Murpny, J. J. (See under Linde Air
Products Co.)

ACCESSIONS

Murray, A. C., Washington, D. C.: Fos-
sil cetacean specimen from Calvert
formation south of Plumpoint, Md.,
collected October 1948 (183157).

Murray, Dr. J. J., Lexington, Va.:
(Through Dr. A. Wetmore) 5 bird
skins (179521).

Murray, Mrs. JoHN H., Washington,
D. C.: Pink satin dress of 1920 period,
organdy dress of 1919 period, and red
georgette-crepe dress of 1924 period
(182725).

MUSEO DE ENTOMOLOG{A, Popayan, Co-
lombia : 24 miscellaneous insects from
Colombia (181531).

MUSEO DE HisTorIA NatTuRAL, Seccién
Botanica, Montevideo, Uruguay: 36
plants from Uruguay (182488, ex-
change and gift).

MUSEO DE LA Prata, La Plata, Argen-
tina: (Through Dr. A. F. Leanza) 35
plants from Argentina (178545, ex-
change).

Museo FOoRESTAL, Ministerio de Agri-
cultura y Ganaderia, Bogota, Colom-
bia; 64 plants (181876).

Museo NACIONAL DE HIstTorrA NATURAL,
Santiago, Chile: (Through Dr. Carlos
Muféz) 4 photographs of plant type
specimens of family Urticaceae
(183146, exchange).

MvusEv NACIONAL DE RIO DE JANEIRO,
Sao Christévio, Rio de Janeiro, Bra-
zil: 3 fragments of plants from Brazil
(181325).

Myers, Dr. Gerorce S.
Stanford University. )

NAGEL, WILLIAM J. (See under Ansco.)

NATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH BUREAU,
Nanking, China: 20 specimens of the
most important and valuable woods
of China (180290, exchange).

NaTIONAL FOUNDATION FoR INFANTILE
PaRALySIS, New York, N. Y.: A T-
sectioned, illuminated exhibit depict-
ing various stages in treatment of
poliomyelitis (182502, loan).

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
under Arnhem Land Expedition. )

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SocreTy—-YALE
UNIVERSITY-SMITHSONIAN INSTITU-
TION EXPEDITION TO NEPAL: 1,164
birds, together with mammals and 17
insects from India and Nepal col-
lected under the direction of S. Dillon
Ripley (179752, collected for the
Museum).

NATIONAL HERBARIUM, Sydney, New
South Wales: 84 plants collected in
New South Wales (180735, 181166,
182995, exchange).

NATIONAL LEAD Co., South Amboy, N. J.:
Nine cut gems of synthetic rutile of
various colors (182827); (through
Dr. R. Dahlstrom) 2 boules and 2 cut
stones of synthetic rutile (180550).

(See under

(See

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NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT:

Department of the Army, Washington,
D, C.: United States Army Sig-
nal Corps exhibit of radar and
radio comprising 2 models,
schematic diagram, and micro-
wave electronic tube components
(175549); (through Maj. Gen.
Russel B. Reynolds) 480 pic-
torial photographs from the first
All-Service Photography Contest,
for special exhibition during
March 1949 (1823886, loan) ;
(through Dr. Arthur R. Turner)
about 500 land, fresh-water, and
marine mollusks from El Salva-
dor (180149); 1 plant from El
Salvador (180151).

Armed Services Institute of Po-
thology, Washington, D. C.:
(Through Lt. Hugh L. Keegan)
Approximately 985 mosquitoes, 2
centipedes, 23 fresh-water and
marine shells, together with rep-
tiles and 2 bats from the Philip-
pine Islands (182388); 22
reptiles and amphibians from
Okinawa and the Philippines
collected by Lt. Hugh L. Keegan
and the 5th Malaria Survey
Detail (180853).

Civil Affairs Division, Washington,
D. C.: (Through Donald J.
Pletsch) 12 bats and associated
ectoparasites from Honshu,
Japan (181324).

8002d Hydroponic Farm Depot, San
Francisco, Calif.: (Through Lt.
Col. Ewing W. Elliott) 259 plants
from Japan (179913).

Medical Department Research and
Graduate School, Washington,
D. C.: 89 skins and 76 skulls of
rodents, insectivores, bats, carni-
vores, and artiodactyls collected
by Maj. Robert Traub in connec-
tion with scrub-typhus investiga-
tions (180325) ; rodents, 14 skins
and skulls from Malaya, and 20
skins and 9 skulls from Taiwan;
also 4 bat skins and skulls from
Malaya, collected by Maj. Robert
Traub in connection with scrub-
typhus investigations (181288) ;
(through Lt. Col. George W.
Hunter, 3d) 5 lots of live and
preserved mollusks from Japan
(181851).

Office, Chief of Finance, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Set of Allied military
currency, World War II (136
specimens) (182555).

Office of the Quartermaster General,
Washington, D. C.: Cadet gray
dress uniform of type formerly

106

worn by United States Army
Band and discontinued in 1948
(1811383).

Depariment of the Navy, Washington,
D. C.: 61 Sampson medals with
bars of 61 ships of West Indies
Squadron (180488); naval uni-
forms of World War II period
(198 specimens) (183005).

Alaska Naval Air Station, Seattle,
Wash.: Damaged Indian child’s
skull from Japonski Island at
Sitka, Alaska (159611).

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
Washington, D. C.: (Through
Commander of Marianas) 10
larvae and 14 adult mosquitoes
collected on Guam (179986).

National Naval Medical Center,
Naval Medical Research Insti-
tute, Bethesda, Md.: 5 bats from
Mount Nanalaud, Ponape Island,
Caroline Islands (182128);
(through Capt. M. J. Aston) ap-
proximately 600 land and marine
shells from Solomon Islands
and Saipan, collected by Com-
mander Harry B._ Hisberg
(183061).

Ojfice of Naval Research, Washing-
ton, D. C.: (Through Prof. and
Mrs. G. BH. MacGinitie) 3,634 mis-
cellaneous marine invertebrates
collected off Point Barrow,
Alaska, together with fishes,
echinoderms, moliusks, and para-
sitic worms (181883).

Office of Naval Research, Arctic Re-
search Laboratory, Point Barrow,
Alaska: (Through Dr. Laurence
Irving) A large collection of
lichens from Alaska (182163) ;
(through Vladimir Walters)
425 fishes and 1 frog from Pan-
ama (182400); 186 crustaceans
together with insects (183077) ;
89 fishes, insects, and mollusks
from vicinity of Alaska (183108).

U. 8. Navy Electronics Laboratory,
San Diego, Calif.: (Through Dr.
Gordon H. Tucker) 13 crabs
(181083).

U. S. Marine Corps, Washington,
D. C.: Uniforms, decorations, and
equipment of type used by United
States Marine Corps in 1948
(180599) ; United States Marine
noncommissioned officer’s sword
and miscellaneous insignia and
equipment of type used in United
States Marine Corps in 1948
(181375).

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN RHO-
DESIA, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia:
(Through Dr. George Arnold) 55
ants, representing 14 species and 7
paratypes (182891, exchange).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

NATIONAL RESEARCH CouNcIL, Pacific
Science Board, Washington, D. C.:
Approximately 500 land mollusks
from Hast Africa collected by Dr.
F. X. Williams (181981, transfer).

NATIONAL SERIGRAPH SocreTy, New
York, N. Y.: 1 complete serigraph ex-
hibit with a master drawing, 6 work-
ing proofs, and a final print of “Buf-
foon,”’ a serigraph by Edward Lan-
don (180947).

NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY,
Washington, D. C.: (Through E. Harl
Porter) 48 prints from Second An-
nual Salon of the National Speleo-
logical Society (182831, loan);
(through Hugh Y. Stabler) Indian
skeletal remains from Nordyke Vil-
lage site, Tazewell County, and from
HKlk Garden village site and burial
cave, Russell County, Va. (180028).

NATIONAL SZECHWAN UNIVERSITY.
Chengtu, Szechwan, China: 421 plants
from China (179878) ; (through Prof.
Wen-pei Fang) 1,736 Chinese plants
(180603).

NATURAL History SocrETY oF MARY-
LAND, Baltimore, Md.: (Through Earl
H. Palmer) 64 photographs from
First Maryland Salon of Natural Sci-
ence Photography (1818438, loan).

NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, Vienna,
Austria: 2381 Huropean plants
(183148, exchange).

NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET, Stock-
holm, Sweden: (Through Prof. Nils
Odhner) 11 type alcyonarians
(181251, exchange).

NEEMAN, JAMES, Garberville, Calif.: 5
plants (180004).

NEL, Dr. Hans L., Pretoria, Union of
South Africa: A specimen of lom-
baardite from Transvaal (181109).

NELSON, Dr. L. A., El Paso, Tex.: 145
specimens of Devonian, Mississippian,
Pennsylvanian, and Permian inverte-
brate fossils from New Mexico and
west Texas (179848, exchange).

NEUMAN, Dr. Ropert B., Gatlinburg,
Tenn.: Approximately 50 Lower Mid-
dle Ordovician fossils from Maryland
and Pennsylvania (181929).

NEWBOLD, FLEMING (deceased). (See
under Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes.)

NEWMAN, J. H., South Lyon, Mich.: 2
paratype Lepidoptera (181319).

New Mexico ScHoOL or MINES, Socorro,
N. Mex.: (Through Dr. Clay Smith)
51 invertebrate fossils from the lower
Abo (?) near head of Bluewater Can-
yon, Zui Mountains, N. Mex.
(181317).

New Mexico, UNIVERSITY oF, Albuquer-
que, N. Mex.: (Through Prof. Carl W.
Beck) 1 slice of La Lande, N. Mex.,
meteorite weighing 160 grams
(182716, exchange); (through Dr.

ACCESSIONS

Frank C. Hibben) skeletal material
(Gallina culture) representing parts
of 2 individuals from cliff house in
Nogales Canyon, north-central New
Mexico (183101).

NEw York BoTANICAL GARDEN, New
York, N. Y.: 7 grasses from Bahama
and Cuba (179778, exchange): 28
plants from Ecuador (179810, ex-
change); 480 plants from Guiana
(179830, exchange) ; 169 plants of the
Maguire and Fanshawe _ British
Guiana collections (180439, ex-
change) ; 1 plant (180476, exchange) ;
1 plant (180675); 31 cultivated
begonias and bromeliads (181586, ex-
change) ; 246 plants collected by R.

A. Howard on Bimini (181828, ex-
change); 11 cultivated plants
(181977).

New York State Museum, Albany, N.
Y.: (Through Alvin G. Whitney) 8
earthworms from leaf mold and peat
moss in a florist’s establishment
(180057) ; 5 earthworms (180532).

New York Zoonosicat Society, New
York, N. Y.: 12 plants (181382, ex-
change).

NicHots, J. T., Jr., Murphy, N. C.: 2
salamanders including type and para-
type from Ocoee Gorge, Polk County,
Tenn., collected by donor (181814).

NicHoxison, Dr. A. J., Billings, Mont.:
4 rodents from New Caledonia
(180141).

NicHoLson, Donarp J., Orlando, Fla.:
2 mollusks from Oriente, Cuba
(180768).

Nicot, Dr. Davin, Washington, D. C.:
About 300 brachiopods from Lower
Cretaceous rocks at Fort Worth, Tex.
(181559).

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT, Geological Sur-
vey of Nigeria, Kaduna Junction,
Nigeria: 4 specimens of nigerite in

- sillimanite schist from Egbe, Ilorin
Province, Nigeria (180594).

Nixon, Mrs. Exsiz, Washington, D. C.:
2 Chinese antique silk fans with ivory
staves, one hand painted and the other
appliqued with pillow, bobbin-made
lace (181935).

NoME Pusuic Scuoots, Nome, Alaska:
(Through W. L. Angell) Cranial por-
tion of a caribou or reindeer skull
(180916).

NortH DAKOTA, UNIVERSITY OF, Grand
Forks, N. Dak.: (Through Prof. G.
C. Wheeler) 5 larvae taken from
choke-cherry fruit (181894) ; approxi-
mately 500 ants (181980).

Norton Co., Niagara Falls, Ontario:
(Through Gordon R. Findlay) 1 spe-
cimen of synthetic bromellite
(180553).

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Norton, Mrs. RicHarp, Washington, D.
C.: 10 Etruscan vases and stands,
purchased from countrymen in Rome,
Italy, by the late Richard Norton,
sometime between 1899 and 1910
(181448, purchase).

Noyes, Mrs. FrAnNK Brett (deceased),
Washington, D. C.: (Through Flem-
ing Newbold) Collection of 287 his-
torical and costume dolls and 8
archeological figurines from Egyp-
tian and Chinese tombs (143948).

OAKLEY, R. G., Hoboken, N. J.: 3 lizards
from Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands
(180745).

Oaxs, O. A., Wilmette, Ill.: 1 wood
specimen from China (182375, ex-
change) ; 1 specimen of wood of Nor-
folk Island pine (183153).

OserG, Mrs. RuTH, Oaxaca, Oaxaca,
Mexico: 1 fly (180751).

OxorneE, H. W., Colorado Springs, Colo.:
(Through Dr. J. B. Reeside, Jr.) 15
Devonian fossils from Nevada
(179870).

Ocnoa, Dr. C., Huanecayo, Peru: 86
plants from Peru (180224, 181331,
181384, 181644).

OpHNER, Prof. NIts. (See under
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet. )

OrscH, Goprrep R., Santa Cruz, Min-
danao, Philippine Islands: 14 land
shells from Mindanao (144283).

OFICINA ESTUDIOS ESPECIALES Saga, San
Jacinto, D. F., Mexico: 394 grasses
from Mexico (180044).

Outro State UNIversity, Columbus,
Ohio. (Through Prof. J. N. Knull) 5
beetles, representing 3 species
(181366) ; (through Prof. Alvah Pet-
erson) 37 beetles, comprising 1 adult
and 36 larvae of 7 species (182176).

Oum, Hersert D., San Antonio, Tex.:
60 pictorial photographs lent for spe-
cial exhibition during April 1949
(182554, loan).

OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MgE-
CHANICAL COLLEGE, Stillwater, Okla.:
3 grasses from Oklahoma (182395).

OLALQUIAGA, F. GABRIEL, Santiago,
Chile: 30 beetles and 74 insects from
Chile (181036) ; 2 moths (181103).

OLD, WILLIAM K., Jr., Norfolk, Va.: 250
fresh-water mollusks from New
York and North Carolina and ap-
proximately 10 crustaceans from
Mountain Lake Biological Station,
Giles County, Va. (180293, ex-
change) ; 1 lizard from Ascension Is.
land (180856) ; 25 marine mollusks
from Hawaiian Islands (181510).

OLIVARES, Father AnToNIO, Bogota, Co.
lombia: 4 birds from Colombia
(181059).

OLIVER, Capt. Freperick L., U. S. N.,
Cambridge, Mass.: 1 pair of men’s ice

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skates made by Barney & Berry,
Springfield, Mass., latest patent date
1887, and 1 pair of ladies’ ice skates
made by Samuel Winslow Skate
Manufacturing Co., Worcester, Mass.,
no patent dates (181495).

OLsEN, Prof. LeLtanp S., Lincoln, Nebr. :
5 syntypes of a new species of nema-
tode (181707).

Otson, ANDREW C., Jr., San Diego,
Calif. : 2 helminths and 2 fragments of
a nematode from Idaho. (180857).

Otson, S. (See under French Grati-
tude Train. )

Oxusson, Dr. Axext A., Langhorne, Pa.:
3 specimens of a new species of marine
mollusk from Panama and Ecuador
(1838170).

OMWAKE, H. G., Lewes, Del. : 15 marine
and land mollusks from the Townsend
Indian village site (kitchen middens)
near Lewes, Del. (178875).

O’NEILL, Mrs. Murret S., Chicago, Ill.:
One-half of a coverlet in a Whig Rose
design (180475).

OneEy, Dr. JoHN. (See under Georgia
State Game and Fish Commission. )
OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Corvallis, Oreg.:

11 grasses from Oregon (180974).

OrNpDOoRFF, Roy L., Arlington, Va.: Iron
connector for wooden water pipe
(183093).

OSMOND, JOHN C., Havertown, Pa.: 4
minerals—mimetite, cuprite, and bor-
nite from Cornwall, England, and
anglesite from Phoenixville, Pa.
(179868, exchange). (See also under
John C. Osmond, Jr.)

OsMonD, JOHN C., Jr., Havertown, Pa.:
(Through John C. Osmond) 2 andra-
dite garnets from Cornwall, Pa., and
1 silver specimen (179824).

OSWELL, GrEoRGE G., Fullerton, Calif.: 2
garnets from Bishop, Calif. (183004).

PAINE LUMBER Co., Ltp., Oshkosh, Wis.:
2 specimens showing a Rezo hardwood
door and its construction (180017).

PauLMER, Earn H. (See under Natural
History Society of Maryland.)

PALMER, Dr. R. H. (deceased), Habana,
Cuba: 375 Tertiary and Cretaceous
brachiopods from Cuba (182551).

PANAMA CANAL, THE, Health Depart-
ment, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone:
Skulls of 28 mammals collected by
Dr. Herbert C. Clark in the Cabra
Valley, Republic of Panama (182927,
transfer).

PARKE, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich.: 4
bottles of drugs—Syrup quill N. F.,
Vinegar Squill N. F., Syrup Squill
Compound N. F., and Milk Magnesia
U.S. P. (180470).

PARKER, Dr. ELIZABETH, Lorton, Va.: 1
land mollusk from Fairfax County,
Va. (182942).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Parks, Dr. H. B., College Station, Tex.:
39 fresh-water mussels from Texas
(182060).

Paropi, Dr. L. R., Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina: 12 grasses from Argentina
(181598, exchange); 14 miscella-
neous grasses from South America
(182549, exchange).

PASSEDOUET, Mme. MARGUERITE BER-
NARD, Paris, France: (Through Amer-
ican Embassy at Paris) Tulle scarf of
blonde net lace, said to have belonged
to Marie Antoinette, an embroidered
handkerchief of the period of Louis
XVI, and a book by M. de Lescure,
entitled “Les Palais de Trianon,”
Paris, 1867 (181606).

PEARSE, Prof. A. S., Durham, N. C.: 709
marine invertebrates (including mi-
croscope slides) together with echino-
derms, reptiles and amphibians, mol-
lusks, and parasitic worms from
Bimini, Bahama Islands (181815).

PECHUMAN, Dr. L. L., Lockport, N. Y.:
17 flies, including type, allotype, and
15 paratypes (181565, 181674).

Prcora, Dr. Wittram T. (See under
U. S. Department of the Interior,
Geological Survey.)

PrpRicK, Dr. F. B. (See under Mrs.
John Carder Pedrick.)

PEDRICK, Mrs. JOHN CARDER, Washing-
ton, D. C.: (Through Dr. F. B.
Pedrick) Black and pink dress of the
period 1890-1891 and tan parasol with
bamboo handle of the same period
(180025).

PENNINGTON, W. E., Tampa, Fla.: 3
crabs (182972).

Prerpew, A. G., Cumberland, Md.: 25
assorted Devonian invertebrate fos-
sils from Cumberland (181807).

PERKINS, CHARLES Exiot, Washington,
D. C.: 68 color photographs for
special exhibition during October
1948 (180596, loan).

Perry, ERNESTINE. (See under French
Gratitude Train.)

Perry, Dr. Stuart H., Adrian, Mich.: 1
meteorite from Girgenti, Sicily,
weighing 8,750 grams (180783); 1
slice of the Smith Center meteorite,
Smith County, Kans., weighing 91
grams (182262).

PERSHING, FRANCIS WARREN, New York,
N. Y.: 146 miscellaneous medals pre-
sented to Gen. John J. Pershing
(182068, loan).

PrersHING, Gen. JoHN J. (deceased) :
Peruvian pottery (182522) ; uniforms,
decorations, medals, flags, and mis-
cellaneous articles owned by General
Pershing (263 specimens) (182935,
bequest).

Peterson, Prof. ALVAH.
Ohio State University.)

(See under

ACCESSIONS

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Pretrerson, M. L., Arlington, Va.: 1 Post, R. L., Fargo, N. Dak.: 1 holotype

mollusk from the Florida Group,
Solomon Islands (180029); 1 speci-
men of Guerrilla emergency currency
issued in the Philippines, 5 centavos,
series 1942 (180418); 2 covers from
the Navy Antarctic Expedition of
1947-1948 postmarked January 1,
1948, and February 2, 1948 (182265).
Petripes, Dr. Grorce A., College Station,
Tex.: 19 bird skins tegether with 9

mammals including 7 skins and 7
skulls (180938).
PEeTTIBONE, Dr. Marian H., Seattle,

Wash.: Approximately 380 parasitic
copepods (1803828); 4 polychaete
worms (180458) ; 1 polychaete worm
and 2 bryozoans (180967).

Prarr, REINALDO. (See under Univer-
sidad del Cauca.)

PHELPS, WitttAM H., Caracas, Vene-
zuela: 1 rail (181057) ; 1 type speci-
men of a woodhewer (1838180,
deposit).

Puemister, Prof. T. C., Aberdeen, Scot-
land: (Through Dr. John P. Marble)
A specimen of anorthosite from near
Old Harbour, Portsoy, Banffshire,
Scotland (182552).

Pum, Dr. ¢. B.,; Hamilton, Mont.: 2
flies (181933, exchange).

Puitiprl B., Dr. R. A., Santiago, Chile:
1 bird from Chile (181972).

Pickus, Mrs. C. L., Grenada, Miss.: 2
erayfish gastroliths from duck
(180748).

Pirrce, Prof. H. Lown, Gainesville, Fla. :
Approximately 3,626 copepods
(180602) ; 15 chaetognaths (182990).

Pinssry, Dr. Henry A. (See under
Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia.)

PITELKA, Dr. FRANK. (See under Uni-
versity of California. )

Pitts, Wii~trAmM B., San Francisco,
Calif.: 1 specimen of orbicular jasper
from Santa Clara County, Calif.
(179203).

PIZZINI, ANDREW, Washington, D. C.: 65
amphipods, 8 crabs, and 1 isopod
(179905); 30 amphipods from a
spring at Vaux de Cernay, Seine et
Dise, France (182066); 108 crusta-
ceans from Loguiry, Brittany, France
(182859).

PietscH, Donatp J. (See under Na-
tional Military Establishment, De-
partment of the Army, Civil Affairs
Division.

PopTIAGUIN, Dr. B., Asuncién, Para-
guay: (Through Dr. A. Wetmore) 16
birds from Paraguay (170801).

Porter, H. Hart. (See under National
Speleological Society.)

858769—50-—_-8

specimen of bee (179970).

Post OrFricE DEPARTMENT, U. S., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 38 copies each of the
following postage stamps — 5-cent
Swedish Pioneer commemorative, 3-
cent Mississippi Territory commemo-
rative, 3-cent Wisconsin Statehood
commemorative, and 3-cent Four
Chaplains commemorative (180128) ;
3 copies each of the following 3-cent
commemorative stamps—Progress of
Women, William Allen White, United
States-Canada Friendship, Francis
Scott Key, Salute to Youth, Oregon
Territory, Harlan Fiske Stone, Palo-
mar Observatory, Clara Barton, Poul-
try Industry, Gold Star Mothers, and
Fort Kearny, and 5-cent New York
City Jubilee (180828); 3 specimens
each of 10 United States commemo-
rative postage stamps (181729); 1
Specimen each of postage stamps and
postal stationery issued in foreign
countries and described in Universal
Postal Union Bulletins, 1948, Nos. 14,
16, 18, 22, 24, 26, 29, 34, 36, and 39;
1949, Nos. 2, 5, 6, 8, and 10 (2,794
specimens) (181776) ; 3 examples of
the 3-cent Minnesota Territorial
commemorative postage stamp issued
in 1949 (182687); 3 copies each of
the following United States commemo-
rative postage stamps—3-cent Wash-
ington and Lee University, 3-cent
Puerto Rico Gubernatorial Election,
§-cent Alexandria, Virginia Bicenten-
nial Air Mail, and 3-cent Annapolis,
Md., Tercentenary (1838079).

PotzcEr, J. E., Indianapolis, Ind.: Por-
tion of a lower jaw of a presumed
dinosaur recovered from a shipment
of Virginia coal at Indianapolis, Ind.
(181697).

PouaH, Dr. FREDERICK H., New York,
N. Y.: (Through Dr. Michael Fleis-
cher) 1 manganoan ilmenite from
Nzokwe, Belgian Congo (181695).

PouLsEN, Dr. CHRISTIAN. (See under
Universitetets Mineralogiske og Geo-
logiske Museum.)

Pratt, Dr. Ivan, Corvallis, Oreg.: 10
slides, type and paratype of a new
species of trematode from western
evening grosbeak, collected at Corval-
lis (182035).

Pray, Lioyp C., Altadena, Calif.: 504
invertebrate fossils from Paleozoic
rocks of Sacramento Mountains of
New Mexico (182170).

PREBLE, Epwarp A., Washington, D. C.:
25 insectivores and 75 rodents
(180446) ; 10 deer mice collected by
Alfred E. Preble in Center Ossipee,
N. H. (181072).

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PRESTON, AxLice, London, England:
Green brocade and lace dress and
white velvet evening wrap of late
19th century (182267).

Prick, Homer F., Payne, Ohio: 20
grouse locusts (179969); 12 grass-
hoppers from Northwest Township,
Williams County, Ohio (180248) ; 25
grasshoppers collected by donor
about a quarter of a mile from Mud
Lake in Northwest Township, Wil-
liams County, Ohio (180390); 12
grasshoppers collected on the bog of
Mud Lake, Ohio (180462); 27 grass-
hoppers from along Flatrock Creek,
southwest of Payne, Paulding County,
Ohio (180671).

Proctor, GEORGE R., Philadelphia, Pa.:
18 ferns (181106, exchange) ; 4 ferns
from Jamaica (181231, exchange).

QUEENSLAND, UNIVERSITY oF, Brisbane,
Queensland: (Through Elizabeth N.
Marks) 39 specimens of mosquito
material, representing 11. species of
which 7 are new to the collection and
2 are paratypes (178208) ; 14 pinned
adults and 5 slides of mosquito ma-
terial (181988).

QUESTEL, ApRIEN, Guadeloupe, French
West Indies: 10 marine inverte-
brates, together with mammal, fish,

insect, mollusk, and echinoderm
specimens (180298).

RADCLIFFE, Dr. Lewis. (See under
Sponge Institute. )

RAEMAEKERS, ROLAND H., Antwerp,
Belgium: 49 Tertiary invertebrate

fossils from Belgium and France
(180846, exchange).

RAGATZ, JOHN J. (deceased), Prairie du
Sac, Wis.: Archeological material
from donor’s farm, bordering on
Honey Creek, 5 or 6 miles west of
Prairie du Sac, Sauk County, Wis.,
presented in his name by his son,
Dr. Lowell J. Ragatz (180598).

Racatz, Dr. LoweLu J. (See under
John J. Ragatz.)

RAmMBo, Dr. B., 8. J., Porto Alegre, Bra-
zil: 2 plants (179954).

RANDALL, W. B., Lantz, Md.: 21 plants
from Catoctin Mountains, Md.
(180136).

RANDEL, Dr. HuGH WAYNE, New Or-
leans, La.: 68 reptiles and amphibi-
ans, 1 fish, and 2 lots of insects col-
lected in Mexico, Guatemala, and Hon-
duras in August and September 1947
(181999).

Ranson, ApeLt. (See under Francis
Newlands Johnston.)

Rapp, EF. W., Vicksburg, Mich. : 3 grasses
from Michigan (181136).

Rapp, Froyp A., San Francisco, Calif. :
Slab exhibiting 19 complete and par-
tial skeletons of fossil fish from Juras-
sic formation at Nekka Sho, Ryogen,

ReEsIDE, Dr. J. B., Jr.

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Manchuria (181064); a collection of
77 minerals such as amethyst, dan-
burite, apatite, ete., from various lo-
calities of Japan and Korea (182882,
exchange).

Rapp, WILLIAM F., Jr., Crete, Nebr.: A
collection of plants from New Jersey
(1801387).

RapscH, Miss, Neidersachsen, Ger-
many: 19 specimens of mosquito ma-
terial, including 1 vial of larvae
(178351).

RASETTI, Dr. FRANcO, Baltimore, Md.:
42 Ordovician and Cambrian brachio-
pods from Canada and Virginia
(180946).

Raut, Mrs. Minnie L., Washington,
D. C.: 59 etchings, 33 in color and 26
in black and white, for special exhibi-
tion April 25 to May 22, 1949 (182553,
loan).

Ray, Sammy M., Pensacola, Fla.: 171
birds and 3 mammals (2 bats and 1
shrew) from Pacific war areas
(182374).

REED, Prof. CLypE T., Tampa, Fla.: Ap-
proximately 30 marine mollusks from
Sarasota, Fla., and 9 insects (181865).
(See also under University of
Tampa.)

ReEED, Frep C., Washington, D. C.: 1
therapeutic lamp of about 1905
(181062).

REED, Mrs. Ivy KELLERMAN, Arlington,
Va.: 3 pieces of Honiton lace—a
jabot and 2 collars made by Mrs.
Stella V. Kellerman, mother of donor,
at Manhattan, Kans., during 1880’s
(181706) ; collection of needlepoint
and bobbin-lace collars and cuffs ac-
quired in Belgium and Venice; a doily
of Mexican drawnwork; a Catalonian
man’s knitted woolen cap; an embroi-
dered apron acquired in Guatemala by
W. A. Kellerman; also 4 pieces of
drawnwork by mother of donor, com-
pleted about 1900 (183183).

Rees, Dr. W. J. (See under British
Government, British Museum (Natu-
ral History).)

(See under H. W.
Oborne and U. S. Department of the
Interior, Geological Survey.)

REEVES, Dr. WILLIAM C., San Francisco,
Calif.: 11 mosquitoes (182556); 8
mosquitoes, 6 from Yap and 2 from
Guam (1838010).

ReupeER, Dr. Haratp A., Washington,
D. C.: 1 towhee (179862).

RerinHarp, H. J., College Station,
Tex.: 4 flies, including 2 paratypes
(182363).

Rertz, Rev. P. RAULINO, Santa Catarina,
Brazil: 98 plants from Santa Cata-
rina (180007). irs

REXALL Drue Co., Los Angeles, Calif. :
1 petechiometer (180479).

ACCESSIONS

REYNOLDS, Mrs. JOHN BD., Meadville, Pa.:
1 spirit set, 2 silver forks, and 1 silver
cup, which were used by Andrew Elli-
eott (182127).

REYNOLDS, Maj. Gen. Russet B. (See
under National Military Establish-
ment, Depariment of the Army.)

RIBBE, JOHN, Malott, Wash.: Stone pes-
tle, granitic schist, found by donor on
his ranch near Malott, Okanogan
County, Wash. (181418).

RicuH, Mrs. C. A., Bellport, Long Island,
N. Y.: (Through Mrs. Margaret S.
Hildreth) A cotton quilt made of 1876
Centennial prints (180031).

RIFFLARD, Dr. Désiré C., Brussels, Bel-
gium: About 300 Hocene fossils from
Belgium (179775).

RIJKSHERBARIUM, Leiden, Netherlands:
1 photograph of a plant type specimen
(181886, exchange).

Rrorpon, Davin L., Washington, D. C.:
1 cashmere shawl, with magenta-col-

ored silk ground, formerly in posses-
sion of the late Senator George F.
Hoar (182270).

Rivero, Dr. JUAN A., Mayagiiez, Puerto
Rico: Approximately 15 marine in-
vertebrates and 1 mollusk (180351) ;
7 shrimps and 2 crabs (182086); 2
crabs and 1 barnacle (182974).

Roserts, Dr. Franx H. H., Jr. (See
under Smithsonian Institution, Bu-
reau of American Hthnology, River
Basin Surveys.)

Rosinson, JOHN H., Barksdale Field,
La.: 30 insects (181846) ; 21 beetles
(182274, exchange).

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, International
Health Division, New York, N. Y.: 2

- mosquitoes with associated larval
skin from Colombia, both new to the
Museum’s collection (181241).

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, Rio de Jan-
eiro, Brazil: (Through Dr. Henry W.
Kumm) 6 mosquitoes (183009).

RorsLtine Funp, Smithsonian Institu-
tion: 6 minerals from Las Chiapas
mine, Sonora, Mexico (180817); 1
covellite from Alghero, Sardinia, and
4 tourmalines and 2 beryls from Minas
Gerais, Brazil (181110) ; a collection
consisting of 10 various secondary
uranium minerals from Shinkolobwe,
Katanga, Belgian Congo (181195); a
specimen of gold in quartz from the
Porcupine District, Ontario, Canada
(181239); collection comprising 30
uranium minerals, such as curite,
saleite, fourmarierite, etc., from vari-
ous localities of Belgian Congo
(182042) ; 2 columbite crystals from
Brazil (182722).

RoEcKeER, Rosert M., Ithaca, N. Y.: 87
small mammals from Ryukyu Islands,
Philippine Islands, and New Guinea
(181784).

Td

RoceErs, Mrs. FLoyp STERLING, Jr., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 2 specimens of lady’s
pink crepe-de-chine lingerie of style
worn during 1930’s (182612).

Rocers, Nancy, Washington, D. C.: 1
bat from Highland County, Va.
(182615).

Rosr, STEPHEN, Washington, D. C.: 1
beetle taken near Madden Dam, Pan-
ama (180105).

ROSENGURTT, Dr. BerNarpo, Estacién Dr.
Alejandro Gallinal, Uruguay: 22
plants from Uruguay (181973, ex-
change and gift); 20 grasses from
Uruguay (182257).

Roteer, Rev. Bernarp, C. R., Capulin,
Colo.: 9 beetles (179971, exchange).

Row .ey, Eimer B., Glens Falls, N. Y.:
6 vesuvianite crystals from near Olm-
stedville, Essex County, N. Y.
(181698, exchange).

RoyaL Botanic GARDENS, Kew, Surrey,
England: 104 grasses mostly from
Africa (182606, exchange).

RozZANSKI, GrorGE, Bronx, N. Y.: 1 liz-
ard, 14 frogs, and a box of gastropod
shells from Domo Santa Clara, Peru,
collected by donor (180883).

RozrEzoom, Dr. Lioyp H., Baltimore, Md.:
1,322 specimens of determined Philip-
pine mosquitoes, consisting of 667
pinned adults and 655 slides
(179968).

RuNDLETT, H. A., Staten Island, N. Y.: 2
beetles (180278).

RuNYON, Ropert, Brownsville, Tex.: 3
ferns (182017).

RUSSELL, Sir ArTHUR, Reading, Eng-
land: 5 specimens of rashleighite
from Cornwall, England (183003).

RutscuH, Dr. R. F., Bern, Switzerland:
13 late Miocene gastropods from
Venezuela (181444, exchange).

SABROSKY, CuRTIS W., Washington, D.
C.: 4 flies, including 2 holotypes with
allotypes (181569); 13 flies, repre-
senting 8 species, all type material
(181584) ; holotype and allotype of
new species of fly (182717) ; 1 wood
thrush (182878).

Saprosky, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis W.,
Washington, D. C.: 25 marine mol-
lusks from Long Beach, N. C.
(180872).

SAILER, Dr. R. I., Washington, D. C.: 1
diatom from Alaska (181025).

SALISBURY, Dr. H. S., San Rafael, Calif. :
3 Tertiary echinoids from California
and a fish plate from Mississippian of
Illinois (179315, exchange) ; 9 Terti-
ary echinoids, 1 Tertiary coral, anda
Recent echinoid from California
(180122, exchange); 5 Tertiary and
22 Recent echinoids from Stimson
Beach, Calif. (181075).

112

SANDERSON, FRANK K.,
Di py Gre ocd
(180493).

Sanpoz, Mrs. Miiprep D., Yorktown,
Va.: Approximately 10 crab larvae
(180297).

Santscui, Dr. F. (deceased), Kairouan,
Tunis: 21 ants (149950, exchange).
SARGENT, HELEN LOUISE (deceased) :

(Through Mrs. C. L. Marlatt) 2
glazed pottery tiles with human fig-
ures and floral and landscape details
on low rounded relief, Persian, last

half 19th century (183099).

SarRLes, HE. H., Norwood, Ohio:
(Through Dr. R. S. Bassler) 1 young
echinoderm from Ordovician of Cin-
cinnati, Ohio (181840).

SAWYER, WELLS M., Sarasota, Fla.: 1
tailless whip scorpion collected by
Mrs. Helen Sawyer Farnsworth in
Sarasota, Mla. (179756).

SAYRE, Francis B., Washington, D. C.:
Ceremonial woven mat from western
Samoa, gift to Mr. Sayre by Samoans,
1947 (188230, loan).

SAYRE, Mr. and Mrs. Francis B., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 8 ethnological speci-
mens (38 from western Samoa, 3
from Siam, and 2 from Peru), also 3
archeological specimens from Peru
(183229).

ScaLes, MinpreD B. (See under Metro-
politan Camera Club Council, Inc.)
ScaTTercoop, Dr. LESLIE W. (See un-
der U. S. Department of the Interior,

Fish and Wildlife Service.)

ScuaaFr, A. B., Cleveland, Ohio: 1 high-
wheel Columbia light roadster bicy-
cle, 1887 model, restored as new by
donor (182167).

SCHALLER, Dr. WALDEMAR T., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 2 specimens of barite from
southwest of Walton, Nova Scotia
(181034).

ScuEept, Dr. Kart B., Ruefenfelweg,
Austria: 25 beetles representing 8
new species, including cotypes (178-
417, exchange).

ScHELL, Stewart C., Champaign, Il.:
8,500 insects (Chalcidoidea) (181-
582).

ScHIEDE, JOHN, Jr. (See under Tele-
phone Camera Club of Manhattan.)
ScHMIEGE, Car“L (deceased), Grand
Rapids, Minn.: (Through Mrs. Carl
Schmiege) 2 motiograph 35-mm, mo-

tion-picture projectors (180769).

ScHOLANDER, Dr. P. F., Coco Solo, Canal
Zone: 881 lichens from Panama (181-
657).

ScHROEDER, LUELLA, Bloomfield Hills,
Mich: 1 bone of elk and a shell, col-
lected from White Clay Creek, 7 miles
northeast of Newark, Del. (180610).

Washington,
gray-cheeked thrush

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

SCHROEDER, WILLIAM C.,
Harvard University,
Comparatwe Zoology.)

ScHuULTES, Dr. RicHarp E., Cambridge,
Mass.: 1 plant from Colombia (181-
627) ; 4 plants from Mexico (181976).
(See also under U. 8S. Department of
Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Indus-
try, Soils, and Agricultural Engineer-
ing.)

SCHWENGEL, Dr. JEANNE S., Greenwich,
Conn.: 3 marine shells from Okinawa
(181708) ; 8 lots of marine mollusks
from Fiji, Ponape, Ryukyu Islands,
Australia, and Florida (182718).

ScrientTIric MontTHLy. (See under
Smithsonian Institution. )

SECRETARIA DA AGRICULTURA, INDUSTRIA
E Comercio, Servico Florestal do Hs-
tado, Sio Paulo, Brazil: 35 plants
from Brazil (181060, exchange); 17
grasses from Brazil (181652).

SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DE AGRICULTURA,
Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic:
1 plant (180939, exchange).

SreEevers, Dr. CHaries H., Chicago, IIl.:
62 beetles (179636, exchange).

SEVERIN, Prof. H.C. (See under South
Dakota State College.)

Seymour, F. C., Appleton, Wis.: 1 plant
from Ohio (181832).

SHANGHAI Museum, Shanghai, China:
(Through D. C. Jansen) 116 fishes
and a shrimp received in June 1882
(182495).

Suarp, Dr. Aaron J. (See under Uni-
versity of Tennessee. )

Suaw, CHARLES M., Washington, D. C.:
1 cultivated plant (183149).

Suaw, Harry B., Washington, D. C.:
3 pictorial photographs made by donor
(180316).

Suaw, Ricuarp F., Berkeley, Calif.: 11
mollusks from San Francisco Bay,
Calif. (180188).

SHocKLEY, W. D., Vicksburg, Miss.: 2
hackmanite specimens from Bauxite,
Ark. (181696).

Surock, Prof. Rosert R., Cambridge,
Mass.: 27 Cambrian trilobites from
the famous Braintree, Mass., locality
(181607).

Siaaroos, Ropert S., Cambridge, Mass. :
39 lichens (182396).

Siter, Col. J. F., Washington, D. C.: 8
bronze medals of France, period of
World War I (180895).

SimMonps, Maraaret A., Washington,
D. C.: Fragment of an English en-
graved metal plate print, about 1785,
a darned net baby bonnet, 19th cen-
tury, and a hand-woven linen shift,
19th century (180032).

Simpson, GRIMNER, Washington, D. C.:
1 young robin (180221).

(See under
Museum of

ACCESSIONS 113

Sinciarr, RatpH M., Nashville, Tenn.:
1 fish from Davidson County, Nash-
ville, Tenn., collected on January 22,
1949 (181793); 7 chipmunks from
Tennessee (182557).

Sxinuin, I. S., Freeport, Maine: 1
graphic granite from Bradbury Moun-
tain, Pownall, Maine (182934).

SMEDLEY, J. E., Washington, D. C.:
Tapir maxilla, from 2 miles south of
Chesapeake Beach, Md. (182826).

SmMitH, Dr. AtBERT G. (See under Chi-
cago Academy of Sciences.)

SmitH, Dr. ALLYN G., Berkeley, Calif.:
50 eggs of the giant African snail
(182175). (See also under Cali-
fornia Academy of Sciences.)

SmitH, C. B., Anacostia, D. C.: 1 beetle
(1800384).

Smita, Dr. Cray. (See under New
Mexico School of Mines.)

SmMiTH, Foster D., Jr., Caracas, Vene-
zuela: 7 birds, 2 birds’ eggs, mammals,
17 insects, and 68 plants (182754).

SmitH, H. DerWirtr. (See under
Tsumeb Corporation, Ltd.)

SmitH, Dr. Lyman B., Washington,
D. C.: 128 plants from Maryland
(181383, 1818384). (See also under A.
Castellanos. )

SmitH, OwEN J., Columbus, Ohio: 1 lot
of nematodes from Ohio (181472).
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washing-
ton, D. C.: 2 etchings, “Express
Stop” by Douglas Gorsline and
“Rrench Lace’ by John Taylor
Arms, both associate membership
prints of the Society of American
Etechers, Gravers, Lithographers,
and Woodeutters, Ine. (179956,
183160, deposit) ; 121 bees, bethylid
wasps, 1 ant, 1 chalcid, 1 bug, 1 fly
from Madagascar purchased from
Karl V. Krombein (182075, de-
posit). (See also under Arabian
American Oil Co., Arnhem Land
Expedition, National Geographic—
Yale University—Smithsonian J[n-
stitution Expedition to Nepal, and
the following funds: Abbott, Can-
field, Chamberlain, Dahlgreen, and

Walcott.)

Bureau of American Ethnology:
Stone artifacts and rejectage col-
lected by Sheldon Judson at vari-
ous sites in Quay County, N. Mex.
(180455); archeological material
from the site of Huari, near Ayacu-
cho in the Central Peruvian Andes,
collected by Dr. Gordon R. Willey
in September 1946 (182343); 24
hand-made silver brooches from
Grand River Indians at Caledonia,
Ontario, Canada (182450); pipe
and tobacco pouch and pipe of
“White Calf,’ Piegan Blackfoot
Chief (bequeathed to Bureau by

Florence Merriam _ Bailey)
(182928) ; miscellaneous potsherds
from the Algonkian village site of
Pissasec, near Leedstown, West-
moreland County, Va., collected in
1936 by the late David I. Bushnell,
Jr. (182986) ; (through Dr. Gordon
R. Willey) earthenware vessels and
other artifacts collected by Dr.
Willey in Virfi Valley, Department
of La Libertad, Peru (181218).
(See also under U. S. Department
of the Interior, Geological Survey.)

Bureau of American Ethnology, River

Basin Surveys: Archeological ma-
terial collected at the Hodges Site
on Plaza Larga Creek, 8 miles
southeast of Tucumeari, Quay
County, N. Mex., August 1947, by
Herbert W. Dick as a project of
the River Basin Surveys (179533) ;
Indian skeleton from Lake Spring
site, Savannah River, Ga. (179773) ;
(through Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts,
Jr.) approximately 114 fossil ver-
tebrates from Canyon Ferry Reser-
voir area near Helena, Mont., and
about 66 specimens from the Boy-
sen Reservoir area in Wyoming
(180511) ; bird bones from Frontier
County, Nebr. (181642); (through
Carl F. Miller) 80 fresh-water
mollusks from Indian site 1 mile
east of Clarksville, Va., on east side
of Roanoke River (182895);
(through Robert B. Cumming, Jr.)
48 fresh-water mollusks from
archeological sites in Kansas,
Nebraska, and North Dakota, also
2 lots of fossil mollusks from North
Dakota (181777).

National Museum, collected by mem-

bers of the staff: Approximately
184 specimens of miscellaneous
marine invertebrates together with
echinoderms, mollusks, fishes, and
corals collected in Florida and sur-
rounding waters by Frederick M.
Bayer (178792); 145 plants from
Labrador and Baffin Island and 21
specimens of Upper Ordovician in-
vertebrate fossils, a human skull
and infant mandible (Eskimo), 11
amphipods, and 40 mammal speci-
mens from Silliman’s Fossil Moun-
tain at head of Frobisher Bay, Baf-
fin Island, Northwest Territories,
collected by Dr. Henry B. Collins,
Jr. (180318, 181220) ; 21 Sub-Holo-
stean and Holostean genera from
the Triassic Bull Run shale, 3.6
miles west of Haymarket, Va.,
Prince William County, and 22
Triassic fishes from Licking Run,
approximately 2 miles northwest
of Midland, Fauquier County,

114

Va., collected by Dr. David H.
Dunkle (181841, 182829); 2 fish
specimens and approximately 250
fossil invertebrates from _ vari-
ous middle and Upper Devonian
horizons in northern Ohio, collected
by Dr. Alwyn Williams and Dr.
Dunkle, May 1949 (188094) ; birds,
mammals, fishes, insects, echino-
derms, mollusks, and marine inver-
tebrates collected by Charles O.
Handley, Jr., during the 1948 Arctic
Operation of Task Force No. 84 of
the Department of the Navy
(179751) ; 1,291 plants, 1 mollusk,
and 1 insect from South America
collected by EB. P. Killip (182472) ;
2 mollusks from Sarasota Bay, Fla.,
collected by Dr. J. Brookes Knight
(182714) ; 64 plants of Argentina
collected by Dr. Lyman B. Smith
(181654) ; 1 land snail from Guate-
mala collected by Dr. T. Dale
Stewart (182715); 247 grasses
from Wisconsin and North Dakota
collected by Jason R. Swallen
(181235); 4 triphylites from the
Palermo mine, Grafton, N. H., col-
lected by Dr. George Switzer
(182724) ; 78 birds and 18 mammals
from Japan collected by Ford
Wilke (181181).

National Museum, obtained by pur-
chase: 450 photographs of type
specimens of plants (179831) ; casts
of mandible and facial fragment of
an ancient man (180447) ; 856 pho-
tographs of plant type specimens
(181387) ; 2 part-gold ornaments of
Veraguas culture from Panama
(181391) ; 644 photographs of type
specimens in European herbaria
(182319).

National Museum, made in the Mu-
seum: 102 photographs of plants
made from borrowed negatives
(180312); 205 photographs of
plants (180442, 180676) ; 2 replicas
of a platform pipe owned by Jeff
Higginbotham, Tazewell, Va.
(183071).

National Zoological Park: 63 birds
(179827, 179950, 180890, 181058,
181381, 182080, 183142); 1 giant
African snail from West Africa
(180282); 3 birds and 2 eggs
(180307) ; 55 reptiles and amphibi-
ans (183156); 31 mammals
(188186).

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AND THE

Screntiric Montruuy, Washington,

D. C.: 282 photographs, Second In-
ternational Photography-in-Science
Competition cosponsored by. the

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Smithsonian Institution and _ the
Scientific Monthly (180318, loan).
SoLano, Sister Francis, Rochester, N.
Y.: 8 amphipods and 6 isopods

(181026, 183075).

SOLLERS, ALLAN A., Baltimore, Md.: 1
sample of marine mud containing
diatoms from Chesapeake Bay
(179864).

SORENSEN, A., Pacific Grove, Calif.: 2
mollusks and 9 marine invertebrates
from Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo
County, Calif. (182347); 2 marine
mollusks from near Guaymas, Sonora,
Mexico (182558).

Souxkup, Dr. J., Lima, Peru: 18 plants
(180075); 386 plants from Peru
(181779).

SoutH Daxota Srate Coriece, Brook-
ings, 8S. Dak.: (Through Prof. H. C.
Severin) 44 beetles (182894).

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF,

Los Angeles, Calif. : 79 grasses from
Mexico (181414) ; (through Dr. W.
H. Easton) 5 Cretaceous pelecy-
pods from Lower California
(1811838, exchange).

Allan Hancock Foundation: 480 plants
from Mexico and Central America
(180112, exchange) ; 7 grasses from
Mexico (181717); 2 plants from
Mexico (1818385); (through Dr.
Irene McCulloch) 70 lots of hy-
droids, including hypotypes, topo-
types, and paratypes (182036).

SoUTHERN MeETHODIST UNIVERSITY,
Dallas, Tex.: (Through Dr. C. L.
Lundell) 14 grasses from Texas

(180928, exchange).

SouTHWoORTH, CHARLES, Thedford, On-
tario: 500 Middle Devonian fossils
from Ontario (182382).

SouzA-NovELo, Dr. Narciso, Mérida,
Yueatan, Mexico: 10 beetles from
Yucatan (181457).

SPeNcER, DorotHy, Takoma Park, Md.:
12 ants from Singapore (181515).

SpeNcER, P. H., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.:
1 original experimental 50-caliber, 7-
shot Spencer repeating rifle and 3
original experimental Spencer repeat-
ing shotguns (180699).

Sperry, Ora, Estate of, Ann Arbor,
Mich.: 1 strand opal beads, 1 jade
plaque pin, 1 jade bracelet piece, and
1 jade pendant piece (181671).

SpeTzMAN, Lioyp, Minneapolis, Minn. :
66 lichens from Alaska (1813830).

Sponce Institutz, Washington, D. C.:
(Through Dr. Lewis Radcliffe) 1 lot
of coral and 2 lots alcyonarians
(179746).

SraABLeR, HucH V. (See under National
Speleological Society.) .

ACCESSIONS 115

Stanrorp, Mrs. Russetyt, Richland, | SrtysKat, Grorar, Grosse Ile, Mich.: 1

Wash.: (Through J. A. Stevenson)

Beaded pipe and tobacco pouch, prob-

ably Flathead Indians of Montana

(182501).

STANFoRD UNIVERSITY, Stanford Uni-
versity, Calif.: (Through Dr. Myra
Keen) 8 Tertiary crabs from the
Monterey formation, Soledad Quad-
rangle, Monterey County, Calif.
(181500); (through Dr. Siemon
William Muller) 80 Mesozoic and
Permian brachiopods from Hurope
(181931, exchange).

Natural History Museum: (Through
Robert R. Harry) 2 fishes from
mouth of small stream on north
coast Guadalcanal Island, Solomons,
collected by Robert C. Pendleton,
May 1944 (181033, exchange) ;
(through Dr. George S. Myers) 9
fishes from the Philippine Islands,
collected by Dr. A. W. Herre in 1931
and 1940 (182084, exchange).

Dudley Herbarium: 2 grasses from
Mexico (179912, exchange).

SrarK, Rosert, Grapevine, Tex.: 150
invertebrates from Pennsylvanian of
north Texas and 4 specimens of Lower
Cretaceous worm tubes from central
Texas (180465); 2,000 invertebrate
fossils from Pennsylvanian of Wise
County, Tex. (181316).

State, U. S. DEPARTMENT oF. (See un- |.

der Frederic Stern.)

STEARNS, RicHArpD E., Baltimore, Md.:
Archeological artifacts from various
localities in Harford, Baltimore, Anne
Arundel, Cecil, and Calvert Counties,
Md. (182055).

STEINLE, D. R., Washington, D. C.: 1

luna moth collected in Greenbelt, Md. |

(182883).
SrTrPHENS, Mrs. Kate, San Diego, Calif. :

A printed silk gauze shawl (180227). |

STEPHENSON, Mrs. Mary R., San Diego,

Calif.: 1 plant from California}

(180078).
SrepHenson, Dr. T. A., Aberystwyth,

(180474).

Strppat, Leo. (See under Artists’
Guild of Washington.)

STERN, FREDERIC, Casablanca, Morocco:
(Through United States Department
of State) 1,523 miscellaneous insects,
a collection made by a Mr. Metier and
his daughter and purchased by donor
(178362).

Srrvenson, Jonunw A. (See under U. S.

Department of Agriculture, Bureau |

of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricul-
tural Engineering, and Mrs. Russell
Stanford. )

fly holotype (182269).

STINTON, F. C., Hants, England: 1,253
fossil fish otoliths representing 29 spe-
cies from the Hocene, Barton and
Bracklesham beds, of England
(180629, exchange).

STIRLING, Dr. M. W., Washington, D. C.:
37 frogs, 10 lizards, 10 snakes, and 1
scorpion from Parita, Herrera, Pan-
ama, collected in February—March
1948 by donor (179809).

STOCKER, JOSEPH, Jr., Norwood, Ohio:
1 cystid from the Upper Ordovician
in the neighborhood of Cincinnati,
Ohio (180483).

STOCKTON, SAMUEL W., Buffalo, N. Y.: 1
Devonian fossil nautilus from the
Ludlowville shale at Wanakah, N. Y.
(179914, exchange).

Stonek, Dr. Benton, Arcadia, Calif.: 5
slides of type Foraminifera (180269).

STORMER, Dr. Per. (See under Uni-
versitetets Botaniske Museum. )

STOYANOW, Dr. ALEXANDER A., Tucson,
Ariz.: 16 brachiopods from northern
Mexico (180552) ; chert nodule con-
taining one mold of a crinoid from
Redwall limestone, collected by L. F.
Brady, near Natural Bridge, Ariz.
(182886).

STRAIN, WILLIAM, Hl Paso, Tex.: 1 sam-
ple of Canutillo limestone (Devonian)
of Texas containing many hundreds
of conodonts (180480).

STRAUB, PauL A., New York, N. Y.: Col-
lection of 1,808 gold and 3,844 silver
coins, mostly European, dating from
14th to 20th century, with 2 catalogs
numbering and listing each coin in
alphabetical and chronological order
and describing it according to ruler,
denomination, date, and metal (5,652
specimens) (161590).

STREATER, Mrs. HMMA FE., Washington,
D. C.: 1 hand-woven linen tablecioth
and part of a hand-woven bedspread,
early 19th century (182825).

Wales: 12 crabs and 7 hermit crabs|STRESSLER, Cuartes J., St. Albans,

N. Y.: A Christianson starter motor,
4-cylinder, compressed-air, about 1910
(181048).

STRIMPLE, HarrRELL L., Bartlesville,
Okla.: 6 Permian brachiopods from
northern Oklahoma (180551); 50
brachiopods and 75 bryozoans from
Pennsylvanian rocks of Oklahoma
(181839).

Srrone, BE. E., Miami, Fla.: Single-bar-
rel hammerless shotgun (179957).

Sux Ross State TEACHERS COLLEGE, Al-
pine, Tex.: 100 plants from Texas
(182948).

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SuRBER, Dr. EuGENE W. (See under
U. S. Department of the Interior,
Fish and Wildlife Service.)

SuTcLturFe, W. H., Jr., Durham, N. C.:
71 copepods (180664, 181722).

Swain, Dr. Fred, Minneapolis, Minn. :
150 conodont samples from Ordovi-
cian of Minnesota (182169, exchange).

Swan, Dr. Emery F., Friday Harbor,
Wash.: Approximately 50 copepods
from gills of clams (182239). (See
also under University of Washington,
Oceanographic Laboratories.)

Swanson, Dr. Leonarp H., Gainesville,
Fla.: 8 land and fresh-water mollusks
from Gainesville and 18 cattle liver
flukes from Florida (182775).

Swinateg, Mrs. W. T., Washington, D.C.:
Two pifia-cloth squares acquired in
the Philippines in 1915 and a set of
lace bobbins and lace patterns from
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (183182).

Switzer, Dr. Grorcre, Washington, D.C.:
2 specimens of diopside from one-half
mile north of Mount Jackson Resort,
Sonoma County, Calif. (182723).

SypNEY, UNIvERSITY oF, Sydney, New
South Wales: (Through Dr. Ida A.
Brown) 14 ‘Tertiary brachiopods
from Victoria, Australia (176233, ex-
change). :

TacLe, V., Dr. Isatas, Santiago, Chile:
6 helminths from Chile (180746).

TAMPA, UNIVERSITY OF, Tampa, Fla.:
(Through Prof. Clyde T. Reed) 300
fishes from between Tampa and Engle-
wood, Fla. (178773).

T&anine, Dr. A. VEDEL, Charlottenlund
Slot, Denmark: 20 fishes from off
Hebrides and Faroe Islands (180865,
exchange).

TayLor, DwieHt W., Nantucket, Mass.:
Approximately 400 mollusks from
Nantucket (180343, exchange).

Taytor, Maj. E. D., Fort Belvoir, Va.:
Specimen of uraninite from Ontario,
Canada (180547); 1 lot sand concre-
tions from one-half mile below Im-
perial Dam, Colorado River, Ariz.
(181445).

Taytor, Mrs. Ora, Dearborn, Mich.: A
double-weave coverlet (179762).

Taytor, Prentiss, Arlington, Va.: 39
lithographs by Prentiss Taylor for
special exhibition from September
7 through October 3, 1948 (180291,
loan); 1 lithograph, “Morelia Aque-
duct,” by donor (181240).

TEARE, MARGARET, Clearwater, Fla.: 3
marine mollusks from Bradenton,
Fla. (182896).

TEICHERT, Dr. Curt.
bourne University.)

TELEPHONE CAMERA CLUB OF MANHAT-
TAN, Brooklyn, N. Y.: (Through

(See under Mel-

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

John Schiede, Jr.) 60 pictorial photo-
graphs made by members of the Tele-
phone Camera Club of Manhattan,
comprising the 14th Bell System Trav-
eling Salon, special exhibition dur-
ing July 1948 (180022, loan).

TELEX, INc., Minneapolis, Minn.: 1
mechanized exhibit, 95 by 59 by 6%
inches, constructed of plywood, wood,
and translucent plastic material con-
taining 44 40-watt bulbs, presenting
a historical review of the develop-
ment of hearing aids, and showing
how they aid hearing (182272).

TENNESSEE, UNIVERSITY OF, Knoxville,
Tenn.: 47 lichens from Southeastern
United States (179832, exchange) ; 79
grasses from Mexico and Guatemala
180173, exchange); 6 plants from
Mexico and Guatemala (181778) ; 49
plants from Hastern United States
and Japan (182720, exchange) ;
(through Dr. Aaron J. Sharp) 216
plants from Mexico (181780).

TESKEY, Mrs. P. H., Buffalo, N. Y.: Ap-
proximately 1,040 fresh-water snails
from Williamsville, N. Y. (181380,
182338).

TEUNISSON, JOHN N., Washington, D.C.:
1 Harrison and Schnitzer lens pat-
ented July 14, 1862, and 1 shutter
mechanism (182387).

TEXAS, UNIVERSITY of, Austin, Tex.: 27
plants (180738, exchange) ; 32 grasses
from Texas (181537); 13 grasses
from Oklahoma and Colorado
(181886) ; (through Gordon Gunter)
6 fishes from Platte River near North
Platte, Nebr., collected March 1947
(181281).

TEXAS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES,
Kingsville, Tex.: 3 grasses (180712,
exchange).

THOMAS, Dr. H. DicHtTon. (See under
British Government, British Mu-
seum (Natural History).)

THOMPSON, CAREY R., Key West, Fla.;
6 plants from the Tortugas (183150).

THRASH, Dox, Philadelphia, Pa.: 53
prints for special exhibition during
November 1948 (180785, loan).

THURMAN, D. C., Jr. (See under Fed-
eral Security Agency, U. S. Public
Health Service.)

TierRNEy, J. Q., Coral Gables, Fla.: 1
echinoderm (179865). (See also un-

der University of Miami, Marine
Laboratory.)
TIMBERLAKE, Prof. P. H. (See under

University of California, Citrus Ha-
periment Station.)

TINKER, SPENCER, Honolulu, T. H.: 2
mollusks from Oahu, T. H. (180562,
181854).

TITTERINGTON, Dr. P. F., St. Louis, Mo. :
Skeletal remains of 39 individuals

ACCESSIONS

Ldi7

excavated from Indian mounds in; TsuMrEsB CorpPoRATION, LtTp., New York,

Jersey and Calhoun Counties, [il.
(182696).

ToLMAN, RUEL P., Washington, D. C.:
9 etchings and 1 drypoint by donor
(180315).

TortTen, J. E., Detroit, Mich.: 5 weapons
of offense and defense collected in
Abyssinia, including cavalry sword
and sheath, a round cavalry shield
of buffalo hide, an elliptic cowhide
shield, and 2 spears (183166).

TowNeEs, Dr. Henry, Raleigh, N. C.:
About 50 phyllopods (180581).

TRANGARIS, Sgt. JoHN, Washington,
D. C.: An illustrated miniature his-
tory of Frederick the Great in the
Silesian wars, 1740-1763, in silver
case bearing the maker’s mark: I. M.
Morikofer, MDCCLVIIII (1759)
(179974).

TRAUTH, Dr. FRIEDRICH, Vienna, Aus-
tria: (Through Francis Newlands
Johnston) 80 Triassic invertebrate
fossils, mostly ammonites from the
Austrian Alps (181927, exchange).

TRAUTMAN, Dr. MixTon B., Put in Bay,
Ohio: 1 purple sandpiper (181311).

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, U. S., Bureau
of the Mint, Washington, D. C.: 2
bronze medals commemorating the
inauguration of President Harry S.
Truman in 1949 (181845) ; 28 United
States coins struck at the Philadel-
phia, Denver, and San Francisco
mints during the year 1948 (182082) ;
galvano of President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt in bronze (182266) ; 18 spec-
imens of the Booker T. Washington
half-dollar struck at the Philadelphia,
Denver, and San Francisco mints in
1947, 1948, and 1949 (182333).

TRECHMAN, C. T., Durham County, Eng-
land: 81 invertebrate fossils from
the Permian of England (181236, ex-
change).

TRESSLER, Dr. WILLIS L., College Park,
Md.: 20 microscope slides of type os-
tracods (180802).

TRUITT, Dr. R. V.
Maryland. )

TRUMAN, President Harry S., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 17 silver vessels in spe-
cially designed metal-shod wooden
boxes, originally presented to Frank-
lin Delano Roosevelt by the Govern-
ment of Tibet; the collection includes
2 butter lamps and stands, 4 teacup
stands and covers, 2 bowls for grain
offerings, 1 teapot, and 2 beer mugs
(180767) ; black-figured Attic lecythus
presented to the President by a Greek
delegation as a token of gratitude
from the people of Greece, and a mar-
ble slab with dedicatory inscription to
President Truman in ancient Greek
(182607, loan).

(See under State of

N. Y.: (Through H. DeWitt Smith)
1 mineral, germanite, from T'sumeb,
Southwest Africa (181868).

TucKER, Dr. Gorpon H. (See under Na-
tional Military Establishment, De-
partment of the Navy, U. S. Navy
Electronics Laboratory. )

TUCKER, JOHN F., Washington, D. C.: 1
No. 4 D. D. Home Medical Apparatus,
a device for home treatment of ail-
ments with use of electricity, and 1
pill machine (183168).

TURNER, Dr. ARTHUR R. (See under
National Military Establishment,
Department of the Army.)

TURNER, Mrs. CARLYLE, Popes Creek,
Md.: 1 copperhead from Faulkner,
Md. (1838131).

TurNER, S. F., Tucson, Ariz.: 1 vial of
olivine and garnet sand from Buell
Park, near Fort Defiance, Ariz.; 1
lot of feldspar crystals and 1 lot of
quartzoids from 2 miles southeast of
Globe, Ariz. (180782).

Unter, F. M. (See under U. 8S. Depart-
ment of the Interior, Fish and Wild-
life Service.)

UHLER, FREDERICK W., Hibbing, Minn.:
Bone harpoon head from bottom of
Rabbit Lake, sec. 29, T. 47, R. 28,
Crow Wing County, Minn. (1799738).

ULKE, Dr. Titus, Washington, D. C.: 1
spider collected at Fort Belvoir, Va.,
on September 16, 1948, by donor
(180557) ; 1 phanerogam from West
Virginia (182992).

UNDERHILL, BrRApForD B., State College,
Pa.: 1 color transparency of a multi-
channel oscillograph record which re-
ceived an honorable mention award
in the First International Photogra-
phy-in-Science Competition (181809).

Unes, Dr. D. H., Dyersville, Iowa: 6
amphipods from a spring near Dyers-
ville (182917).

U. S. CommercraL Co., Washington, D.
C.: 25,000 miscellaneous insects, 1,173
spiders, 2 skinks, 3 lizards, 1 small
snake, 13 shrimps, 67 sowbugs, 3
snails, 7 fishes, 87 diplopods, 12 chilo-
pods, and 50 scorpions, collected in
the South Pacific in 1948 by Dr. H. K.
Townes and R. G. Oakley, accom-
panying the expedition (181451).

U. S. OrpNANCE Co., Washington, D. C.:
(Through A. Y. Leech, Jr.) A Benet-
Mercie 30-caliber automatic machine
rifle, 1909 model, and 1 clip of inert
cartridges, also 4 pamphlets (179958).

UNIVERSIDAD DEL Cauca, Popaydn,
Cauca, Colombia: 94 plants from
Colombia (181752); (through Rein-
aldo Pfaff) 25 insects from Colombia
(179389).

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UNIvERSIDAD NacronaL, Facultad de
Agronomia, Medellin, Colombia ; 3,164
plants from Colombia (180941, 183088,
exchange-gift) ; 2,690 plants from
Colombia (182321, 182322).

UNIVERSIDAD NacronaL Mayor DE SAN
Marcos, Lima, Peru: 16 lichens from
Morro Solar, near Lima, Peru
(180831).

UNIVERSITETETS BOTANISKE MUSEUM,
Oslo, Norway: (Through Dr. Per
Stérmer) 2938 lichens from Green-
land (182164, exchange).

UNIVERSITETETS MINERALOGISKE 0G GEO-
LOGISKE Musreum, Copenhagen, Den-
mark: (Through Dr. Christian Poul-
sen) 12 Silurian brachiopods from
Greenland (181315, exchange).

UppsaLa, UNIvEeRSITy oF, Institute of
Systematic Botany, Uppsala, Sweden:
56 plants from southwestern Africa
(182994, exchange),

UriszE Urise, Dr. Lorenzo, Bogot4,
Colombia: 83 plants from Colombia
(180380, 182165, 188060).

UtTau, UNIversity or, Salt Lake City,
Utah: 1 fern isotype (182489).

Uran Scenic Stone Corporation, St.
George, Utah: (Through Clarence
Force) 1 slab of sandstone, “Utah
Picture Stone,” from St. George
(181581).

Uran State AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Logan, Utah: (Through Dr. George
F. Knowlton) 1 holotype specimen
of fly (180033); 7 caddisflies
(181196) ; 2 flies, type and allotype
(181564) ; 27 bugs (181583).

Van Boven, J. K. A., Roermond, Nether-
lands: 108 ants (180986, exchange).

Van Creave, Dr. Hartey J., Urbana,
Iil.: 12 slides comprising types of 5
new species of helminths (181848).

VANDERBERG, W. O., Muskegon, Mich.: 8
mineral specimens, consisting of ger-
manite, simpsonite, etc., and 1 meteo-
rite (Hoba Iron) from Southwest
Africa (180270).

VAN DER FEEN, Dr. Tera, Amsterdam,
Netherlands: 30 lots of marine and
land mollusks (182621, exchange).

VAN DER Kvuvp, H., Willemstad, Curacao:
13 fresh-water snails from Curacao
(180273).

Van vER Vecut, Dr. J., Buitenzorg,
Java: 33 wasps, representing 8 species
in the family Vespidae (180692); 8
wasps, representing 2 genera and 4
species (182834, exchange).

VAN Deurs, Capt. GrorcEe, U. S. N.,
Alexandria, Va.: Inkwell used by
Abraham Lincoln during his adminis-
tration as President of the United
States, presented to the Rev. George
Van Deurs by Elizabeth Keckley, per-
sonal maid and seamstress of Mrs.
Lincoln (181810).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

Van Dykes, Dr. E..C. (See under Cali-
fornia Academy of Sciences.)

VAN Empen, Dr. F., London, England:
531 beetles (181376, exchange). (See
also under British Government, Com-
monwealth Institute of Entomology.)

Vareas C., Prof Cesar, Cuzco, Peru: 77
plants from Peru (179903, exchange) :
4 grasses from Peru (181416).

VENMANS, Dr. L. A. W. C., Bladel,
Netherlands: 2 lots of mollusks from
the Dutch East Indies (180093).

VERRILL, A. Hyatt, Lake Worth, Fla.: 6
lots of marine mollusks from the
West Indies (180200); 1 marine
mollusk from Florida (180698); 2
marine mollusks from Dominica,
British West Indies (182320, 183015) ;
2 marine mollusks (182899).

VILELA, Dr. HERCULANO, Lisbon, Portu-
gal: (Through Dr. L. Walford) 1
shrimp (181872).

VINTON, KENNETH W., Balboa Heights,
Canal Zone: 1,392 miscellaneous in-
sects, spiders, scorpions, and centi-
pedes, 29 shells, and 2 lizards from
the Galapagos Islands (180882).

Voet, GrorGE, College Park, Md.: 15
beetles (179962).

Voret, Dr. ERHARD, Hamburg, Ger-
many: 29 Upper Cretaceous bryozo-
ans from Germany (182380);
(through Dr. R. S. Bassler) 146
assorted invertebrate Devonian fos-
sils from Rhine Valley, Germany
(182499).

Von Bonne, Dr. Crecri, Capetown, South
Africa: 1 new species of rare deep-
water genus of mollusk from off
Natal, South Africa (180697). .

VON DER PorTEN, Mrs. AMY. (See under
Institute of Jamaica.)

WAERING, Dr. Ertk N. K., Tulsa, Okla.:
2 Ordovician trilobites from vicinity
of Tulsa (180486); 7 invertebrate
fossils from Silurian of Hardy
County, W. Va. (181442).

WagcstaFF, R. E., Herndon, Va.: 2 fos-
sil fishes from Triassic shales 3 miles
northwest of Haymarket, Prince Wil-
liam County, Va. (182830).

WaLcott, FrepERIC C., Norfolk, Conn.:
612 birdskins from Nyasaland
(181440).

Watcott Funp, Smithsonian Institu-
tion: 842 ammonites and 5385 brachi-
opods from Jurassic rocks of Sicily
and 252 Permian invertebrates from
Sicily (179820) ; 262 corals and bryo-
zoans from Middle Devonian deposits
of southwestern Ontario (180037) ;
40,000 Devonian, Mississippian, Penn-
sylvanian, and Permian invertebrate
fossils from Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, and Oklahoma (180195) ; about
100 blocks of Permian limestone

ACCESSIONS

containing silicified fossils from
Glass Mountains of Texas and about
25,000 invertebrate fossils from
Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylva-
nian, Permian, and Cretaceous of
New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma
(180448) ; 500 Permian fossils from
Sicily (180508); approximately 300
fossil mammals, collected by Dr. C.
L..Gazin, from Oligocene beds at
Pipestone Springs, Mont., and from
the Almy Paleocene and Knight
Hocene beds of western Wyoming
(180548) ; approximately 400 fossil
fishes and reptiles and 50 invertebrate
fossils, collected by Dr. D. H. Dunkle
and A. C. Murray from the Upper
Cretaceous Pierre and Fox Hill for-
mation of Wyoming and the Hocene
Green River Shale formation of Utah
(180677) ; lower jaws and associated
fragments of an unknown teleostean
fish from the Cretaceous Niobrara for-
mation, southeast of Russell Springs,
Kans. (180687) ; approximately 2,500
Ordovician invertebrate fossils from
the Appalachians, collected by Dr.
G. A. Cooper (180815).

WALForD, Dr. L. (See under Dr. Her-
culano Vilela.)

WALEER, Dr. E. H., Washington, D. C.:
19 plants from local area and the
Shenandoah National Park, Va.
(181493) ; 1 land mollusk from New
Zealand (182940).

WALKER, ERNEST P., Washington, D. C.:
5 short-tailed shrews (182393).

WALKER, J. B., Washington, D. C.: 21
plants collected near. New Baden,
Tex. (180222).

WALKER, Dr. J. F., Hattiesburg, Miss. :
18 marine invertebrates, together
with algae, fishes, mollusks, and
echinoderms (180378).

WALKER, Marron. (See under Mar-
guerite Davis.)

WALKLEY, LUELLA M., Silver Spring,
Md.: Specimen of amethyst from
near Burnt Mills, Montgomery
County, Md. (180546).

WaLkom, Dr. A. B. (See under Aus-
tralian Museum.) —

WALTERS, VLADIMIR, Fairbanks, Alaska.
(See under National Military Estab-
lishment, Department of the Navy,
Office of Naval Research.)

Warp, Lynp, Leonia, N. J.: 30 wood en-
gravings by Lynd Ward for special
exhibition May 23 through June 19,
1949 (183181, loan).

WarRpd’s NATURAL SCIENCE ESTABLISH-
MENT, Rochester, N. Y.: 2 specimens
of percylite from Lima, Peru, 1 syl-
vanite from Ingram mine, Boulder
County, Colo., and 1 specimen of lithi-
ophilite from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

119

(180018, exchange): (with coopera-
tion of Canfield Fund) 10 mineral
specimens, including andorite, benja-
minite, gummite, umangite, and vivi-
anite from Finland, South America,
and United States( 180897, part ex-
change).

WASHINGTON, STATE COLLEGE OF, Pull-
man, Wash.: 2 plants from United
States (181831, exchange); 1 grass
from Montana (182255).

WASHINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF, Seattle,

Wash.: 5 fresh-water snails from
Richland, Wash. (181172): 170
plants from Northwestern United
States collected by Dr. C. Leo Hitch-
cock (182494, exchange).

Applied Fisheries Laboratory:
(Through Dr. Kelshaw Bonham)
Approximately 141 amphipods
(180973, 181641) ; 384 marine in-
vertebrates (4 lots) (181362).

Oceanographic Laboratories:
(Through Dr. Emery F. Swan) 5
copepods (182680).

Watson, PauLS. (See under Maryland
Academy of Sciences.)

WEBER, GEORGE, Washington, D. C.: 1
fox squirrel collected near Delaplane,
Fauquier County, Va. (180696).

WEBER, Dr. Neat A., Swarthmore, Pa.:
11 miscellaneous marine worms
(180830) ; skull of grizzly bear from
North Dakota (182191); 12 caddis-
flies from Alaska (182614).

WELLS, Grorce THOMAS, Smithfield,
Va.: 1 echinoid from a beach be-
tween Mogarts Beach and Fort Boy-
kin Beach, James River, Va. (178367).

WENTWORTH, Mr. and Mrs. JoHN, Chi-
eago, Ill.: (Through Frederick M.
Bayer) 7 lots of mollusks from Cat
Cay, Bahamas (181015).

WESTON ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENT COR-
PORATION, Newark, N. J.: (Through
C. L. Ilg) Weston Invercone Incident
Light Adapter for Weston Master
Universal Exposure Meter (180272) ;
(through John H. Miller) 24 electri-
cal instruments, 382 miscellaneous
electronic tubes, and 21 incandescent
lamps (181342).

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, Morgan-
Town, W. Va.: 51 plants from South-
eastern United States (181108, ex-
change).

WEtTMorE, Dr. A., Washington, D. C.: 3
ticks and 3 fleas taken from a rabbit
in Virginia Shenandoah National
Park on July 5, 1948, by donor
(179825); 2 birds (179828); 1 rac-
coon, 1 skunk, 1 squirrel, and 1 rab-
bit from Shenandoah National Park,
Va. (180107) ; 2 mice, 1 mole, and 1
deer skull from Shenandoah National
Park (180320, 181392) ; 1 squirrel and

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1 woodchuck from Shenandoah Na-
tional Park (180871); 1 muskrat, 1
deer mouse, and 1 chipmunk from
Shenandoah National Park (181014) ;
1 earthworm found on grounds of the
National Museum (181125) ; 27 birds
from Maryland and Virginia (181329,
182078) ; 2,165 birds from Central
United States (181685, deposit); 11
small mammals from Virginia
(183184). (See also under Dr. J. J.
Murray, and Dr. B. Podtiaguin.)

WHARTON, Dr. GroraeE W., Durham,
N. C.: 2 rats and 1 mole from Cocoa
Beach, Fla. (179788) ; 1 daddy-long-
legs (179872).

WHEELER, BURR.
ploration Co.)

WHEELER, Prof. G. C. (See under Uni-
versity of North Dakota.)

WHITE, BURDETTE E., Merced, Calif.: 2
paratypes of beetles (182937).

WHITE, M.G. (See under U. 8S. Depart-
ment of the Interior, Geological Sur-
vey.)

WHITEHORN, STANLEY G., Floweree,
Mont.: 1 insect from Floweree
(181177).

WHITNEY, ALVIN G. (See under New
York State Museum.)

WHirtarp, Dr. W. F. (See under Uni-
versity of Bristol.)

WuHirten, Horace L., Houma, La.: 3
shrimps (182650).

WILLEY, Dr. Gorpon R. (See under
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of
American Ethnology.)

Wiutiams, Dr. Atwyn, Washington,
D. C.: 85 Ordovician brachiopods
from Wales (180688).

Wir1tramMs, Mrs. F. A., Nigeria, West
Africa: 14 plants from Sugu Plateau,
British Cameroons (182323).

Wiu1aMs, Harotp L. (See under Prof.
Warren D. Mateer. )

WILLIAMS, Dr. JAMES STEELE. (See un-
der U. S. Department of the Interior,
Geological Survey.)

WILLIAMS, Lucta K., Washington,
D. C.: Tobacco pouch, stone pipe
bowl, and incised German Silver or-
nament collected by donor’s father,
Lt. William M. Williams, 3d, U. S.
Infantry, from Indians of Southern
Plains, 1867 to early 1880’s (183165).

Wiis, Dr. Epwin R., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Photograph of yellow-fever mos-
quitoes responding to odor of a man’s
arm at the right-hand port of an in-
sect olfactometer (181116).

Witson, Mrs. Mutprep S., Seattle,
Wash.: 80 crustaceans (179928).

Winrorp, Mrs. T. E., Dallas, Tex.: 1
land mollusk from Waco, Tex. (179-

(See under Chile Ex-

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1949

987) ; 6 fresh-water snails from Bexar
County, Tex. (181023).

Wine, Merrre, Raleigh, N. C.: 1 ant, a
new female holotype (180468).

WIRTH, WILLIS W., Washington, D. C.:
23 flies, including types (183096).

WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF, Madison,
Wis.: 54 plants from North America
(183086, exchange).

WITTE, WiL1LIAM H., Riegelsville, Pa.: 2
plants from Pennsylvania (181061).
Wo tocorTt, GrorGE N., Rio Piedras, Puerto

Rico: Bullfrogs, introduced into

_ Puerto Rico from Florida (182731).

Wo FE, Col. L. R., San Francisco, Calif. :
85 birds from Korea (179671, 180388) ;
40 birds and 14 mammals from Korea
(181162, 181643).

Wooprorp, Prof. A. O.
Edgar H. Bailey.)

WoopHovssE, Prof. C. D., Santa Barbara,
Calif.;: 3 augelite crystals from
Champion Sparkplug mine, Mono
County, Calif. (179946, exchange) ;
3 minerals, 2 lazulites and 1 anda-
lusite, from Champion Sparkplug
mine (182273, exchange).

Wooprina, Dr. W. P. (See under Dr.
U. S. Grant and U. S. Department of
the Interior, Geological Survey.)

Woops Hore OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITU-
TION, Woods Hole, Mass.: (Through
Dr. Louis W. Hutchins) 638 crusta-
ceans and 1 cephalopod (181950).

Wootr, DonaLp O., Washington, D. C.:
1 Premo B 4 by 5 inch view camera
with 2 plate holders (182031).

Wootsey, HeatHcote M., Kent, Conn.:
9 mollusks from Jamaica (183016,
exchange).

Wricut, L. M., Enterprise, Fla.; Ap-
proximately 320 marine and land
shells from Bermuda, also Pleistocene
fossil shells (164972); 19 marine
mollusks from Biscayne Bay, Fla.
(181757).

WricHT, Orvittre, Estate of, Dayton,
Ohio: The original Wright Brothers’
aeroplane, invented and built by Wil-
bur and Orville Wright and flown by
them at Kitty Hawk, N. C., December
17, 19038 (181890, deposit).

WYOMING, UNIVERSITY OF, Laramie,
Wyo.: 46 plants from Wyoming
(180763, exchange); 29 plants from
United States (181830, exchange).

YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.:

(Through D. R. Crandell) 2 com-
plete specimens of percid fish from
an unknown deposit 10 miles south-
west of Ree Heights, Hand County,
S. Dak. (180466, exchange). (See
also under National Geographic-
Yale University-Smithsonian Insti-
tion Expedition to Nepal.)

(See under Dr.

ACCESSIONS

Osborn Botanical Laboratory: 26
grasses from Peruvian Andes
(182241, exchange).

School of Forestry: 18 tropical Amer-
ican plants (180794, exchange) ; 1
plant from Guatemala (181302) ; 43
plants from Brazil and Honduras
(181753) ; 6 plants from Panama
(182309) ; 1 plant from Venezuela
(182860).

Yasumatsvu, Dr. Kerzo. (See under
Kyushu University.)

YOCHELSON, Eis, Clinton, Md.: 219
Mississippian invertebrate fossils
from the Fern Glen and Northview
(?) formations of Missouri (179869).

Youna, Dr. FRANK N. (See under Uni-
versity of Florida.)

YunxKers, Anya, New York, N. Y.: 17
prints (woodcuts and monotypes) for

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special exhibition during December
1949 (181115, loan).

ZAYAS, FERNANDO, Habana, Cuba: 3
beetles from Trinidad (183006).

ZETEK, JAMES, Balboa, Canal Zone:
Wood specimen of matasarno from
the Galapagos Islands (180942).

ZIMMERMAN, H.C. (See under Bernice
P. Bishop Museum and Hawaii Sugar
Planters’ Association. )

ZootogicaL Musrtum, Amsterdam,
Netherlands: (Through Dr. L. F. de
Beaufort) 3 paratypes of fishes from
northern point of Inhaca Island,
Delagoa Bay, South Africa (181224,
exchange).

ZOOLOGISKA INSTITUTIONEN, Uppsala,
Sweden: (Through Dr. A. Holm) 14
type alcyonarians (181299, exchange).

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REPORTS

Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1948. S8vo, pp. i-iii, 1-127. January 25, 1949.

BULLETINS

Bulletin 195. Life histories of North American nuthatches, wrens, thrashers,
and their allies. Order Passeriformes. By Arthur Cleveland Bent. §8vo,
pp. i-xi, 1-475, 90 pls. July 7, 1948.

Bulletin 196. Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their
allies. Order Passeriformes. By Arthur Cleveland Bent. 8vo, pp. i-—viii,
1-454, 51 pls. June 28, 1949,

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM

FROM BULLETIN 100

Volume 14, part 3. Report on the Hchinoidea collected by the United States
Fisheries steamer Albatross during the Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910.
Part 3: The Echinoneidae, Echinolampadidae, Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae,
Laganidae, Fibulariidae, Urechinidae, Echinocorythidae, Palaeostomatidae,
Micrasteridae, Palaeopneustidae, Hemiasteridae, and Spatangidae. By
Theodor Mortensen. 8vo, pp. i-iii, 93-140. October 29, 1948.

FROM VOLUME 29, CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL HERBARIUM

Part 5. A revision of Macrocarpaea, a Neotropical genus of shrubby gentians.
By Joseph Ewan. §8vo, pp. i—vii, 209-249, pls. 1-5. August 23, 1948,

Part 6. New grasses from Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia,
and Brazil. By Jason R. Swallen. 8vo, pp. i-iii, 251-276. February 18,
1949.

FROM VOLUME 98 OF THE PROCEEDINGS

No. 3222. A potential snail host of Oriental schistosomiasis in North America
(Pomatiopsis lapidaria). By R. Tucker Abbott. Pp. 57-68, figs. 10, 11, pls.
3,4. July 2, 1948.

No. 3224. The serphoid Hymenoptera of the family Roproniidae. By Henry
Townes. Pp. 85-89, fig. 12. July 8, 1948.

No. 3225. Parasitic wasps of the genus Trimorus in North America. By Robert
M. Fouts. Pp. 91-148, figs. 18-15. August 19, 1948.

No. 3226. New pemphilidine wasps from southern Nigeria. By V. S. L. Pate.
Pp. 149-162, fig. 16. October 19, 1948.

No. 3227. The butterflies of the Admiralty Islands. By Warren Herbert Wag-
ner, Jr., and David F. Grether. Pp. 163-186, pls. 11-18. December 7, 1948.

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. 8228. Flies of the family Stratiomyidae of the Solomon Islands. By

Maurice T, James. Pp. 187-213. November 9, 1948.

. 8229. Cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus in the West Indies, with

description of a new subspecies from Cuba. By Luis René Rivas. Pp. 215-
222, pl. 14. October 19, 1948.

3230. A new crayfish of the genus Cambarus from Texas, with notes on
the distribution of Cambarus fodiens (Cottle). By Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Pp. 223-231, fig.17. November 16, 1948.

. 3231. Report on the Pycnogonida colleccted by the Albatross in Japanese

waters in 1900 and 1906. By Joel W. Hedgpeth. Pp. 233-321, figs. 18-51.
March 14, 1949.

. 8232. Mammals of northern Colombia. Preliminary report No. 4: Monkeys

(Primates), with taxonomic revisions of some forms. By Philip Hershko-
vitz. Pp. 323-427, figs. 52-59, pls. 15-17. May 10, 1949.

. 32338. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. By T. D. A.

Cockerell, Pp. 429-490. May 25, 1949.

. 8234, A generic revision of the treehoppers of the tribe Ceresini in America

north of Mexico, based on a study of the male genitalia. By John 8S. Cald-
well. Pp. 491-521, pls. 18-23. May 10, 1949.

FROM VOLUME 99 OF THE PROCEEDINGS

. 8235. A further contribution to the ichthyology of Venezuela. By Leonard

P, Schultz. Pp. 1-211, figs. 1-20, pls. 1-8. May 10, 1949.

. 3236. The weevils of the genus Tachygonus in the United States National

Museum, with descriptions of new species. By Oscar Monte. Pp. 213-227,
figs. 21-82. May 25, 1949.

. 8237. The species of ichneumon-flies of the genus Cardiochiles occurring in

America north of Mexico. By Ying-Tou Mao. Pp. 229-266, pls. 4,5. March
21, 1949.

. 3208. A revision of the mites of the family Cheyletidae in the United States

National Museum. By Edward W. Baker. Pp. 267-320, pls. 6-17. April
14, 1949,

. 3239. A new species of copepod of the genus Corycaeus from the North

American coast. By Mildred Stratton Wilson. Pp. 321-326, pl. 18. June
10, 1949.

. 3240. New buprestid beetles from Mexico, Central and South America, and

the West Indies. By W. S. Fisher. Pp. 327-351. April 26, 1949.

. 8241. The Pima County (Arizona) meteorite. By HE. P. Henderson and

Stuart H. Perry. Pp. 353-355, pls. 19, 20. April 27, 1949.

. 83242. The Linwood (Nebraska) meteorite. By H. P. Henderson and Stuart

H. Perry. Pp. 357-360, pls. 21-24. April 27, 1949.

. 3248. The Nearctic species of the family Stephanidae (Hymenoptera).

By Henry Townes. Pp. 361-370, pl. 25. June 10, 1949.

. 8244. Nine new xystodesmid millipeds from Virginia and West Virginia,

with records of established species. By Richard L. Hoffman. Pp. 371-389,
pls. 26, 27. June 14, 1949.

. 8245. <A review of the copepod genus Paranthessius Claus. By Paul L. Ig.

Pp. 391-428, figs. 33-37. May 10, 1949.

. 8246. Mammals of northern Colombia. Preliminary report No. 5: Bats

(Chiroptera). By Philip Hershkovitz. Pp. 429-454, fig. 38. May 10, 1949.

. 83247. New species and records of staphylinid beetles from Formosa, Japan,

and South China. By Malcolm Cameron. Pp. 455-477. June 14, 1949.

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